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THE  SAINT  LAWRENCE  UNIVERSITY 


•COLLEGE  OF  LETTERS  AND  SCIENCE 


Almon  Gunnison,  D.  D.,  President;  Henry  Priest,  Ph.  D.,  Dean 
and  Hay  ward  Professor  of  Phyrics  and  Chemistry;  Henri  Hermann 
LiOTARD,  A.  M.,  Emeritus  Professor  of  French  and  German;  George 
Robert  Hardie,  M.  A.,  Professor  of  the  Latin  Language  and  Literature; 
Robert  Dale  Ford,  M.  S,,  Recorder,  and  Professor  of  Mathematics; 
Frederic  CoFFYN  Foster,  M.  A.,  Secretary,  and  Professor  of  History 
and  Political  Economy;  Charles  Kelsey  Gaines,  Ph.  D.,  Professor  of 
Greek  and  English;  Frank  Smith  Mills,  A.  B.,  Professor  of  Geology 
and  Mineralogy  on  the  Chapin  foundation;  Mary  L.  Freeman,  M.  A., 
Professor  of  the  German  and  French  Languages;  Edwin  Lee  Hulett, 
M.  A.,  Professor  of  Chemistry;  C.  E.  Barter,  Laboratory  Assistant  in 
Chemistry;  Evelyn  Wells,  13.  A.,  Assistant  in  English. 

Admission  to  the  Course  Leading  to  the  Degree  of  Bachelor  of 

Arts. 

I.  The  Primary  Entrance  Requirements: 

English,  Physiology,  American  History,  History  of  Greece  and 
Rome,  Plane  Geometry,  Algebra. 

II.  The  Advanced  Entrance  Requirements.    Each  candidate  must  of- 

fer one  of  the  following  three  groups: 

Group  A. — Latm:  Caesar,  Cicero,  Vergil.  Greek;  Anabasis,  Iliad. 
Group  B. — Latin:  As  in  Group  A,  French;  Equivalent  to  Greek. 
GroupB. — Latin:  AsinGroupA.    German:  Equivalent  to  Greek. 

Admission  to  the  Course  Leading  to  the  Degree  of  Bachelor  of 

Science. 

I.  The  Primary  Entrance  Requirements  as  above. 

II.  The  Advanced  Entrance  Requirements.    Each  candidate  must  offer 

either  Group  A,  B  or  C,  and  nine  of  the  subjects  in  Group  D. 
Group  A. — Latin:  Beginning  Latin,  Caesar. 
Group  B. — German,  two  years. 
Group  C. — French,  two  years. 

Group  D. — Physical  Geography,  Botany,  Zoology,  Geology,  Chem- 
istry, Part  I;  Chemistry,  Part  II;  Physics,  Part  I; 
Physics,  Part  II;  General  History,  Advanced  U.  S. 
History,  Civics.  A  third  year  of  Latin,  French  or 
German  may  be  substituted  for  any  two  of  the  sub- 
jects in  this  group. 

Candidates  for  admission  must  have  pursued  a  four  years'  high 
school  course  or  a  full  equivalent.  Students  desiring  to  do  special  work 
must  show  proficiency  in  the  departments  which  they  eleet. 

Regular  examinations  for  admission  will  be  held  at  the  University  on 
Monday  and  Tuesday  of  the  first  week  of  the  fall  term  of  the  college  year. 

Tuition,  $50.00  per  year.    Numerous  free  scholarships. 

For  a  more  detailed  statement  see  catalogue,  which  can  be  obtained 
by  addressing 

Professor  F.  C,  FOSTER,  Secretary, 

Canton,  N.  Y. 


THE  LIBRARY  OF  1,.^ 

MAY  1  9  1923 
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THE  LAURENTIAN 


Vol.  XIX  Canton,  N.  Y.,  July,  1906  No.  7 

Published  Monthly  during  College  Year  by  the  Laurentian  Publishing  Co. 

Subscription,  One  Dollar  per  Year;  Single  Numbers,  Fifteen  Cents 
Entered  at  the  Postoffice  at  Canton  as  Second-Class  Matter 

THE  SEMI-CENTENNIAL 

The  semi-centennial  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  St. 
Lawrence  University!  To  some  who  were  present — alumni 
with  gray  heads  but  youthful  hearts,  themselves  near  the 
celebration  of  their  semi-centennial — this  scarcely  seemed 
possible.  They  remember  so  well  the  little  college  of  the 
past,  with  its  faculty  of  six  or  seven  teachers,  and  classes 
about  as  large,  when  both  departments  rattled  like  dried 
peas  in  the  shell  of  a  single  building  which  also  served  as 
a  dormitory.  They  can  only  think  of  the  college  as  young, 
struggling,  almost  starving  on  a  barren  hill  in  a  region 
none  too  friendly  in  those  days — the  college,  perhaps,  of 
the  seventies,  when  true  college  spirit  was  just  beginning 
and  college  work  was  done  without  college  equipment. 
And  they  find  the  building  they  knew  almost  hidden  behind 
the  grove  which  was  then  a  thicket  of  bare  poles,  and  new 
buildings  to  left  and  right,  the  newest  of  all  stretching 
far  beyond  the  trees,  and  more  to  come.  They  find,  too,  a 
chapel  larger  than  that  in  which  they  sat  uncrowded,  yet 
quite  too  small  for  the  noisy  throng  of  to-day.  That  they 
find  more  loyalty  than  they  knew  no  one  will  say;  loyalty 
such  as  theirs,  in  and  out  of  the  college,  has  made  St.  Law- 
rence what  it  is. 

Indeed,  we  are  wrong  in  reckoning  St.  Lawrence  among 
the  younger  colleges  now.  Of  course  the  real  pioneers  of 
education  in  America — some  of  them  older  than  the  nation — 


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form  a  class  by  themselves;  beside  these  all  the  rest  seem 
creations  of  yesterday.  Yet  when  all  the  colleges  of  our 
country  are  grouped  in  the  order  of  dates  in  two  equal 
classes,  the  old  and  the  new,  St.  Lawrence  is  found  among 
the  older  colleges,  and  well  up  on  the  list — so  swift  is  the 
flow  of  time  and  so  rapid  the  growth  of  the  higher  educa- 
tion in  recent  years.  In  America  it  is  not  a  youthful  col- 
lege that  celebrates  its  fiftieth  anniversary. 

The  date  was  early,  the  exercises  beginning  on  the  tenth 
of  June.  Owing  to  this  many  who  earnestly  wished  to 
attend,  teachers  especially,  were  held  elsewhere  by  con- 
flicting duties.  On  Saturday,  however,  the  trains  began 
to  unload  familiar  faces — some  of  them  a  little  startled  at 
the  cheering  which  greeted  them  at  the  station.  Ultimately 
an  exceptionally  large  number  of  the  alumni  of  all  periods 
were  gathered  in  Canton,  and  many  other  guests  were 
present,  though  fewer  than  had  been  expected.  They  were 
met  by  a  committee,  requested  to  register  in  the  President's 
office  in  Richardson  Hall,  and  entertainment  was  provided 
if  desired.  The  weather  proved  ideal,  continuing  cool  and 
brilliant  to  the  end.  St.  Lawrence  was  seen  at  her  best, 
and  the  celebration  was  in  every  way  worthy  of  the  occa- 
sion. 

On  Sunday  morning,  in  the  Universalist  Church,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  A.  B.  Hervey — the  earliest  living  graduate  of  the 
Theological  School,  a  trustee,  a  former  president  of  the 
College  and  always  its  devoted  friend — delivered  an  address 
which  was  one  of  the  most  notable  and  characteristic  fea- 
tures of  the  anniversary.  His  subject,  covering  the  whole 
life  of  the  University  and  full  of  difficulty,  was  treated  with 
rare  skill  and  deep  insight.  Comprehensive,  admirably 
proportioned,  discriminating,  appreciative  of  all  who  had 
helped  to  build  the  school,  with  clever  characterizations 
and  a  touch  of  humor,  at  once  instructive  and  entertaining, 
the  address  gave  great  satisfaction  and  received  much 
praise.  Because  of  its  permanent  value,  and  in  accord- 
ance with  the  wish  of  all  who  heard  it,  we  print  this  almost 
in  full.    Dr.  Hervcy's  address,  which  follows,  was  entitled. 


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THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  FOR  FIFTY  YEARS 

I  know  not  that  I  need  to  make  any  apology  for  appearing  before 
you  on  this  occasion  to  make  the  historical  address,  I  am  in  no  sense 
responsible  for  the  choice  of  the  speaker.  In  justice  to  President 
Gunnison  it  should  be  said  that  the  whole  blame  lies  at  his  door. 
What  good  excuse  he  has  to  offer  I  could  never  imagine.  The  only 
one  I  ever  heard  him  give  was  that  I  am  the  earliest  living  graduate 
of  the  University. 

But  that  is  a  mere  accident,  arising  from  the  fact  that  my  name 
came  alphabetically  second  on  the  list  of  the  graduates  in  the  first 
class  in  the  Theological  Department — and,  alas!  also  to  the  fact 
that  the  one  whose  name  stood  first  has  passed  through  the  gate 
into  the  great  Mystery. 

This  may  be  an  excuse,  but  it  never  seemed  to  me  to  be-a  reason. 
I  will  say  frankly  that  the  one  only  reason  why  I  assented  to  his 
request  was  a  rule  that  I  have  made,  never  to  refuse  any  call  which 
my  Alma  Mater  should  make  upon  me  for  any  service  which  I 
could  render.  I  have  often  been  doubtful  of  my  ability  to  make 
that  service  acceptable,  and  never  more  so  than  in  this  instance. 

Let  it  be  understood  however,  that  a  historical  address  is  not  a 
history.  It  can  expect  only  to  present  a  few  snap-shots  of  the  in- 
stitution and  of  the  men  who  have  made  it,  taken  at  those  periods 
in  its  history  which  would  appear  to  be  most  important,  briefly  to 
trace  by  them  the  working  of  those  forces  and  influences  which 
have  shaped  its  career,  and  to  indicate  thereby  the  salient  features 
of  its  work  and  character. 

But  the  limitations  of  such  an  essay  are  extremely  narrow.  There 
are  a  great  many  things  which  my  pen  cannot  write,  and  among  them 
the  whole  story  of  an  institution  like  this;  for  into  the  making  of  it 
have  gone  the  lives  of  many  men  and  women,  their  toils,  their 
hopes,  their  prayers,  their  sacrifices,  their  love  and  devotion,  day 
after  day,  year  after  year.  The  record  of  all  this  may  be  kept  in 
Heaven.    It  can  never  be  written  on  earth. 

The  seed  out  of  which  this  institution  grew  was  undoubtedly  the 
desire  on  the  part  of  the  Universalist  body  in  the  state  of  New  York 
for  a  better  educated  ministry.  The  immediate  primary  purpose 
of  its  progenitors  was  to  establish  a  theological  seminary,  closely 
modeled  on  those  of  other  Protestant  denominations.  The  Univer- 
sity, which  should  include  a  College  of  Letters  and  Science,  was  an 
afterthought.  It  was  a  happy  afterthought  indeed,  but  it  was 
that. 

Not  in  the  least  to  ignore  or  belittle  the  generous  help  which  has 
been  given  to  the  University  by  members  of  other  sects  in  Northern 
New  York  and  elsewhere,  it  may  fairly  be  claimed  that  the  work  of 
education  and  civilization  which  the  University  has  done  in  all  this 


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region  should  be  set  down  primarily  to  the  credit  of  that  little  body 
of  believers  which  in  those  days  bore  a  very  opprobrious  name, — 
who  were  then  never  granted  the  least  recognition  as  fellow  Chris- 
tians by  the  general  religious  public. 

More  than  ten  years  before  the  chartering  of  St.  Lawrence,  Rev. 
Dr.  Thomas  J.  Sawyer,  one  of  the  ablest  preachers  of  the  Univer- 
salist  faith  in  that  day,  gave  up  his  pastorate  in  New  York  City  and 
came  up  to  Clinton  to  take  charge  of  the  institution  located  in  that 
village.  There  he  began,  in  addition  to  his  other  duties  in  con- 
ducting the  school,  the  systematic  training  of  young  men  for  the 
ministry.  This  work  went  on  for  some  seven  years,  during  which 
time  no  less  than  twenty-nine  young  men  were  prepared  for  and 
entered  the  Universalist  ministry.  Nearly  all  of  these  became  use- 
ful preachers  and  ministers,  and  some  of  them  attained  to  eminence 
in  the  work.  Among  them  was  Richard  Eddy,  our  learned  his- 
torian, who  was  pastor  of  the  church  in  Canton  at  the  time  the 
Theological  Department  was  opened,  and  by  whom  I  was  received 
into  its  fellowship — a  membership  which  I  believe  I  still  maintain. 
.Other  names  are  those  of  Charles  A.  Skinner,  recehtly  deceased  at 
the  venerable  age  of  eighty-two,  whose  grandson,  a  Laurentian,  is 
the  associate  pastor  of  Dr.  Chapin's  old  church;  D.  C.  Tomlinson, 
whose  son  is  the  honored  pastor  of  President  Gunnison's  Worcester 
church;  Charles  H.  Leonard,  the  venerable  Dean  of  Tufts'  Divinity 
School;  and  the  late  Bernard  Peters,  who  after  serving  All  Souls 
church  in  Brooklyn  for  many  years  became  the  founder  of  the 
Brooklyn  Daily  Times. 

During  all  these  years  the  question  of  the  founding  of  an  institu- 
tion for  the  better  education  of  the  ministry  was  being  agitated 
both  in  New  York  and  New  England.  It  resulted  in  1854  in  the 
opening  of  Tufts  College,  but  without  a  theological  department. 
The  first  definite  steps  which  finally  resulted  in  the  establishment 
of  St.  Lawrence  were  taken  at  the  meeting  of  the  State  Convention  in 
Canton  in  1851.  The  next  year  an  educational  society  was  formed 
at  the  meeting  of  the  convention  in  Hudson,  and  an  appeal  was 
made  for  funds  for  the  founding  of  a  theological  seminary.  Jacob 
Harsen  responded  to  this  appeal  by  offering  $5,000,  on  condition 
that  $25,000  should  be  raised  from  other  sources.  He  afterwards 
modified  his  offer  to  give  $1,000  for  every  other  five  thousand  that 
might  be  raised.  "This  offer,"  says  Mr.  Ellsworth,  in  his  sketch  of 
the  early  history  of  the  University,  "really  made  St.  Lawrence 
possible."  By  November,  1854,  it  appears  that  $26,000  had  been 
pledged,  and  this  being  deemed  sufficient  a  committee  was  ap- 
pointed to  locate  the  seminary. 

I  need  not  go  into  details  as  to  that.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  such 
good  work  and  enthusiasm  had  been  put  into  the  project  in  Canton, 
led  by  Martin  Thatcher,  Rev.  John  T.  Goodrich,  and  others,  that 


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when  the  committee  met  and  had  visited  all  the  places  offered— no 
less  than  twelve  in  all,  not  counting  Buffalo,  where  our  venerated 
friend  Augustus  C.  Moore  once  told  me  he  hoped  to  have  the  school 
brought— it  was  decided  that  Canton  had  made  the  best  offer  and 
should  have  the  school. 

I  was  once  told  that  when  Dr.  Chapin  learned  of  the  decision  of 
the  committee  he  remarked  in  his  disgust,  "I  wonder  why  they 
didn't  take  it  to  the  North  Pole  while  they  were  about  it."  Still, 
it  is  to  be  noted  that  he  was  so  far  reconciled  to  its  location  that  he 
consented  to  come  to  Canton  and  lend  his  splendid  eloquence  to  the 
occasion  of  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  in  June,  1856.  While  it 
may  be  admitted,  perhaps,  that  the  top  of  the  North  Pole  is  just 
visible  from  the  Hill,  it  has  been  found  easier  to  reach  Canton  than 
the  Pole  from  New  York.  To-day  New  York  would  hardly  be  ask- 
ing, "What  good  thing  can  come  out  of  this  Northern  Nazareth?" 
One  could  hardly  imagine  what  New  York  would  do  without  Lau- 
rentians  to  make  and  administer  her  laws  and  educate  her  children. 

With  the  locating  of  the  Theological  Seminar^'  in  Canton  it  was 
but  natural  that  the  idea  of  a  literar^^  college,  to  be  connected  with 
it,  should  be  suggested.  Mr.  R.  C.  Ellsworth  thinks  we  owe  the 
first  inception  of  that  idea  to  Mr.  L.  B.  Storrs,  whose  name  is  in- 
dissolubly  connected  with  the  early  history  of  the  institution.  At 
all  events  the  suggestion  bore  immediate  fruit,  and  the  charter  of 
the  University  was  at  once  applied  for,  and  granted  by  the  legis- 
lature on  the  third  of  April,  1856. 

A  few  days  later  an  incident  occurred  in  Canton  which  it  ma}-  be 
worth  while  to  mention  in  this  connection.  It  would  seem  that  a  cer- 
tain reverend  gentleman  of  the  name  of  Hale  was  not  ver>'  particu- 
larly pleased  with  the  project  of  establishing  a  Universalist  college  in 
his  native  town.  He  was  much  wrought  up  about  it,  and  in  the  Pres- 
byterian church  on  a  Sunday  afternoon  assailed  the  whole  scheme 
in  vociferous  not  to  say  vulgar  language,  after  which  he  was  so  ill- 
advised  that  he  put  the  discourse  into  cold  print.  I  have  read  it. 
Among  other  bad  features  of  it,  he  advised  his  hearers,  some  of 
whom  much  to  his  disgust  had  subscribed  money  for  the  college, 
to  repudiate  their  agreement  and  not  pay  the  same.  I  am  glad  to 
say  that  their  personal  honor  was  of  more  account  to  them  than  his 
sectarian  zeal,  and  they  paid. 

Now  take  notice  of  another  fact  of  a  different  sort,  viz.  that 
thirty-three  years  later,  when  I  was  installed  as  President  of  the 
college,  the  ceremony  took  place  in  the  Presbyterian  church— it 
being  much  larger  than  our  own  of  that  day— at  the  invitation  of 
the  society  worshiping  there.  This  goes  to  show  how  much 
sectarian  zeal  had  softened  in  a  third  of  a  century.  It  is  but  fair  to 
say  that  during  the  last  twenty-five  years  the  college  has  had  the 
liberal  support  of  the  people  of  this  region  of  all  sects.    It  has  be- 


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come  known  that,  while  it  is  in  the  care  of  our  own  church,  the 
administration  of  the  college  is  absolutely  without  sectarian  bias. 

I  wish  to  add,  in  this  connection,  that  that  noble  song  '''^ Fides  et 
Veritas'^  was  composed  by  Mr.  Nelson  Robinson  for  the  occasion 
of  which  I  have  just  spoken. 

In  1857  the  legislature  granted  the  new  institution  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars,  ten  of  which  should  be  expended  in  books  and 
apparatus  and  the  remainder  kept  as  a  permanent  endowment. 

The  trustees  named  in  the  charter  include  some  of  those  already 
mentioned  and  many  others,  among  them  Hon.  John  L.  Russell, 
United  States  Senator  Preston  King,  Rev.  Dr.  Balch,  and  F.  C. 
Havemeyer,  the  founder  of  the  great  sugar  refining  industry  in 
New  York.  The  last  named  lived  down  into  my  time  and  gave  me, 
as  I  remember,  the  money  to  buy  the  equipment  of  miscroscopes 
now  in  use  in  the  college. 

The  old  college  building,  henceforth  to  be  known  as  Richardson 
Hall  in  honor  of  the  present-time  munificient  friend  of  the  Univer- 
sity, was  finished  in  April,  1857.  But  it  was  not  opened  for  work 
till  a  year  later,  April  15,  1858,  when  Rev.  Dr.  Ebenezer  Fisher,  a 
native  of  Maine  and  more  recently  a  resident  pastor  in  South 
Dedham,  Mass.,  was  installed  as  Principal,  both  he  and  Dr.  Balch 
making  addresses. 

The  school  opened  with  four  students,  all  from  the  state  of  New 
York  and  one  from  St.  Lawrence  county.  I  think  I  should  here 
record  the  names  of  these,  the  first  to  enter,  as  learners,  the  doors 
of  the  University.  They  were  James  M.  Pullman,  Mahlon  R. 
Leonard,  Andrew  J.  Canfield,  and  B.  L.  Bennett.  Only  two,  the 
first  two  named,  remained  in  the  school  to  graduate  with  the  class. 
At  the  beginning,  or  soon  after  the  opening  of  the  fall  term,  other 
students  came,  so  that  the  class  numbered  at  one  time  no  less  than 
fourteen.  It  was  at  this  point  that  the  personal  relations  of  your 
speaker  with  the  University  began,  viz.  on  October  12,  1858;  and 
they  have  continued  more  or  less  intimately  down  to  the  present  hour. 
He  hopes  and  trusts  that  they  may  remain  unbroken  to  the  end. 

Just  here  I  must  ask  your  kindly  indulgence  to  any  personal 
allusions  which  you  may  find  in  the  farther  conduct  of  this  address. 
If  you  think  they  are  too  many  you  may  console  yourself  with  the 
reflection  that  they  might  have  been  more.  Murmur  not  at  the 
afflictions  you  suflfer,  but  rather  rejoice  at  those  you  are  mercifully 
spared.  Believe  me,  I  have  practised  the  utmost  parsimony  in 
respect  to  them  consistent  with  a  clear  tracing  of  the  story. 

The  class  came  from  various  places  in  New  York,  Pennsylvania, 
and  New  Hampshire,  and  from  various  occupations.  I  can  see 
them  all  now  as  plainly  as  I  can  see  you,  as  they  assembled  in 
Professor  Fisher's  room  for  their  three  hours'  session  in  the  morn- 
ing.   There  was  our  great  Master  as  he  sat  in  his  accustomed  place, 


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with  his  placid,  kindly,  patient  smile,  venerable  with  age  at  forty- 
five  to  a  youth  not  yet  out  of  his  teens,  his  great  dome  of  a  head 
surmounting  his  massive  frame.  And  there  were  the  "boys" 
ranged  about,  some  of  them,  at  least,  so  immature  and  green  that 
they  would  have  made  a  tough  proposition  for  any  martyr's  fire. 
May  I  undertake  to  give  you  a  "snapshot"  of  a  few  of  them. 

There  was  Pullman,  easily  the  most  brilliant  man  among  us,  and 
one  of  the  ablest  men  ever  graduated  from  the  Universtiy,  hand- 
some as  an  Apollo,  with  his  quick  wit  and  ringing  laughter,  all  so 
spontaneous  and  contagious.  There  was  Pattee,  with  his  thin  refined 
face  and  dark  eyes,  eager  for  learning,  impatient  of  delay  in  the 
work  of  the  class,  and  an  ardent  student  of  Cousin  and  Hamilton 
and  other  metaphysical  masters.  There  was  Smiley,  with  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  able  to  read  and  even  speak  German,  himself  a 
German  from  Pennsylvania.  There  was  White,  a  wood-turner  from 
Lowell,  really  very  devout,  and  always  well  dressed  and  well 
groomed.  There  was  another  who  took  great  pride  in  bearing  a 
name  dear  to  all  Universalists,  a  man  singularly  gifted  in  prayer. 
Then  there  was  another  from  Lowell,  who  looked  to  be  more  pious 
than  any  man  ever  was,  and  who  was  never  content  till  he  could 
make  Paul  and  the  other  Apostles  to  be  thorough-going  ritualists. 
He  naturally  afterwards  drifted  away  into  the  Episcopal  church. 
There  was  another  who  had  been  repeatedly  told  by  congregations 
in  country'  school-houses  that  he  was  a  very  eloquent  preacher.  He 
even  admitted  the  same  himself.    So  I  suppose  he  was. 

I  cannot  stop  to  tell  you  of  the  many  things  I  can  recall  of  that 
first  fall  in  the  Theological  School,  and  in  the  following  years:  of 
our  debates,  of  our  political  squabbles— for  some  of  us  were  Abol- 
itionists, and  those  were  strenuous  times  just  before  the  Civil  War. 
Even  then  the  war  clouds  were  gathering  in  the  southern  sky,  and 
the  first  class  graduated  in  that  week  of  hush  and  terror  between 
the  firing  on  Fort  Sumter  and  the  first  bloodshed  in  Baltimore. 

The  names  of  that  first  class  m  the  order  of  their  graduation  are 
as  follows:  Daniel  Ballou,  your  speaker  Alpheus  B.  Hervey,  Mahlon 
R.  Leonard,  William  M.  Pattee,  and  James  M.  Pullman.  Pattee 
died  within  a  year.    Ballou  lived  till  1902,  and  Pullman  till  1903. 

The  scene  from  the  Hill,  always  beautiful,  was  in  1858  much  the 
same  as  now,  only  that  the  woods  were  nearer  in  the  direction  of 
Little  River.  I  remember  that  Donati'scomet  was  still  flaming  low 
in  the  northwestern  sky  when  I  came  here — perhaps  the  grandest 
spectacle  nature  ever  presented  in  the  heavens  in  the  nineteenth 
centur>'.  Another  bit  of  personal  experience  which  I  recall  was  the 
work  on  the  Campus,  instigated  by  a  gift  of  money  from  Horace 
Greeley,  to  be  worked  out  by  the  students  in  two-hour  daily  turns. 
As  it  was  too  late  in  the  season  to  plant  com  and  potatoes,  we  were 
set  to  planting  the  big  boulder  rocks  which  the  Ice  Age  had  care- 


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lessly  left  scattered  about  on  the  hill.  Many  of  them  were  as 
big  as  a  hogshead,  and  weighed  several  tons.  Our  method  of 
planting  them  was  to  dig  a  big  hole  in  the  ground  several  feet  deep 
close  beside  each,  and  then  by  the  help  of  levers  roll  the  rocks  in 
and  cover  them  up.    So  far  as  I  know  they  are  there  yet. 

The  students  maintained  themselves  largely  by  supplying  vacant 
pulpits  in  Northern  New  York  during  term  time,  and  elsewhere 
about  the  country  during  the  long  summer  vacations.  I  think  it 
only  fair  to  say  that  the  principal  worth  of  the  preaching  lay  in  its 
obvious  good  intention,  and  the  people,  in  lieu  of  anything  better, 
were  kindly  willing  to  pay  for  that. 

I  hope  you  will  pardon  a  brief  mention  of  two  men  whom  I  knew 
intimately  in  those  days.  One  was  Leffert  Buck,  who  was  then 
taking  his  preparatory  work  with  Dr.  J.  S.  Lee,  and  at  the  same 
time  employing  most  of  his  time  during  the  day  at  the  bench  or 
lathe  in  the  machine  shop.  As  a  young  man  he  was  quiet,  unpre- 
tentious, almost  shy,  but  painstaking  and  thorough  to  a  degree 
rarely  found  in  any  man  young  or  old,  never  satisfied  with  any 
undertaking  till  he  had  mastered  it  to  the  last  detail  and  made  it 
wholly  his  own.  Those  qualities  which  have  characterized  his  dis- 
tinguished career  as  a  soldier  and  engineer  were  all  plainly  seen  in 
his  youth.  The  other  was  William  L.  Gilman,  who  was  my  room- 
mate for,  I  think,  a  year.  He  had  been  a  sailor  before  the  mast. 
He  was  an  Abolitionist,  and  had  served  with  John  Brown  and  Jim 
Lane  in  Kansas.  He  was  a  singularly  pure  and  noble  character, 
conscientious  and  devoted  to  his  ideals  of  duty  far  beyond  nearly 
all  the  men  I  have  ever  known.  He  was  an  enthusiast  of  the  stuff 
of  which  martyrs  are  made.  Graduating  with  the  second  class,  in 
'62,  it  was  only  natural  that  he  should  leave  his  pulpit  a  few 
months  later  to  offer  his  services  to  his  country  in  the  great  Civil 
War.  He  died  as  he  had  lived,  a  true  Christian  hero,  on  the  field 
of  Gettysburg.  The  University  has  done  itself  honor  in  recording 
his  name  and  his  virtues  on  a  marble  tablet  in  the  Library. 

I  first  saw  General  Merritt  in  the  Hall  on  the  Hill.  I  do  not 
remember  the  occasion.  I  recall  only  his  commanding  personality, 
and  the  fact  that  we  youngsters  looked  upon  him  as  already  distin- 
guished. A  member  of  the  State  Legislature  at  that  date  was  a 
man  of  mark.  From  that  time  to  this  the  University  has  found  in 
him  a  devoted  and  efficient  friend.  His  biography  is  inwoven  with 
almost  the  entire  history  of  the  college.  Other  men  in  Canton, 
besides  those  already  mentioned,  whom  we  looked  upon  as  found- 
ation pillars  of  the  University  were  Barzillai  Hodskin,  Theodore 
Caldwell,  Hiram  J.  Cook,  Martin  Thatcher,  and  Rev.  S.  W.  Rem- 
ington, whose  grandson  has  made  himself  a  great  name  in  art. 

Though  Dr.  Lee  came  came  to  Canton  in  1859  and  opened  a  pre- 
paratory school,  it  was  not  till  1861  that  the  College  of  Letters  and 


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Science  was  fully  organized  and  students  began  to  take  the  regular 
courses  leading  to  a  degree.  The  first  class,  graduated  in  1865, 
consisted  of  two  members,  Delos  McCurdy,  of  New  York,  and 
Hiram  H.  Ryel,  of  Lowville.  The  Faculty  consisted  of  Dr.  Lee 
and  Professor  Clapp.  Dr.  Lee  continued  his  connection  with  the 
college  only  two  years  after  graduating  his  first  class,  then  spent  a 
year  abroad,  and  on  his  return  was  called  to  the  chair  of  Church 
History  in  the  Department  of  Theolog}^  a  position  he  continued  to 
hold  to  the  end  of  his  long  and  useful  life. 

Rev.  Dr.  Richmond  Fisk  was  called  to  the  presidency  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Letters  and  Science  in  1868  and  served  three  years.  During 
his  administration  a  Law  School  was  established  in  the  University, 
which  however  was  discontinued  in  1872. 

In  my  time  as  a  student,  the  library,  which  was  almost  exclusively 
theological,  consisted  of  the  collections  of  "Father"  Loveland,  of 
Vermont,  and  Professor  Credner,  of  Giessen,  Germany— books  valu- 
able to  a  finished  scholar  but  of  little  use  to  the  less  than  half- 
developed  youngsters  who  were  turned  loose  to  browse  among  them. 

Up  to  1870  the  library  was  housed  in  the  room  now  used  as  the 
President's  office  in  the  old  college  building.  In  that  year  the  pres- 
ent library  building  was  erected,  partly  at  the  expense  of  S.  C.  Her- 
ring, of  Herring  safe  fame,  and  named  after  him. 

In  1871  Dr.  Conkey  became  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  and 
served  for  twelve  years  in  that  capacity,  rendering  valuable  services 
to  the  University.  He  was  the  agent  who  secured  the  endowment 
of  the  Hayward  professorship,  making  a  journey  all  the  way  to 
California  for  that  purpose. 

In  1865  Dr.  Cone  came  into  the  faculty  of  the  Theological  Depart- 
ment. Here  he  did  most  admirable  work  for  fifteeen  years.  He 
ultimately  achieved  the  distinction  of  being  the  greatest  scholar 
our  church  has  produced,  and  as  a  writer  on  themes  of  Biblical 
learning  won  a  fame  which  justly  extended  to  every  land  where 
Biblical  learning  is  esteemed.  His  Life  of  St.  Paul  is  easily  the  first 
of  its  kind  in  our  language,  if  not  in  any,  for  thoroughness  of 
critical  study,  and  for  unbiased,  absolutely  scientific  as  well  as 
sympathetic  treatment  of  the  subject.  For  simplicity  and  clearness 
of  literary  style  it  leaves  nothing  to  be  desired.  After  serving  Buch- 
tel  College  as  President  for  sixteen  years  with  distinguished  ability, 
and  spending  some  years  at  home  and  abroad  in  special  study,  he 
was  called  to  the  Richardson  professorship  in  St.  Lawrence  in 
1900,  and  here,  a  year  ago,  closed  his  most  honorable  career. 

In  1872  John  Stocker  Miller,  a  graduate  of  the  class  of  '69,  now  a 
lawyer  of  eminent  ability,  was  made  Professor  of  Greek  and  Latin. 
He  is  well  remembered  by  the  graduates  of  that  day  as  an  excellent 
teacher  and  a  man  of  sterling  character,  but  resigned  in  1874  in 
order  to  enter  upon  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession. 


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In  1872  Dr.  Absalom  Graves  Gaines  became  President  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Letters  and  Science,  and  from  that  date,  I  think  it  fair  to 
say,  the  best  work  of  the  literary  department  of  the  University  had 
its  inception.  He  continued  to  administer  this  high  office  until  his' 
abounding  vitality  was  exhausted  by  the  strain  of  his  arduous 
duties,  and  ill  health  compelled  his  retirement  sixteen  years  later. 

On  the  twenty-first  of  February,  1879,  that  great  and  good  man.  Dr. 
Fisher,  suddenly  and  without  warning  departed  this  life,  as  chance 
would  have  it  in  his  own  lecture  room  in  the  college.  He  had 
administered  his  great  office,  with  a  devotion  and  success  rarely 
equalled,  for  nearly  nineteen  years.  The  loss  to  the  School  and  to 
the  Church  was  beyond  repair. 

Carlyle  has  said  that  history  "is  but  the  essence  of  innumerable 
biographies. ' '  Some  one  else  has  said  that  history  is  only  ' '  biography 
writ  large,"  which  amounts  to  about  the  same  thing.  History  is 
the  story  of  man,  biography,  of  men.  That  is  all  the  difference. 
Institutions  take  their  character  from  the  men  who  build  them. 
They  simply  build  themselves  into  their  creations.  It  may  be 
"without  the  sound  of  axe,  hammer,  or  other  metal  tool."  It  may 
be  quite  unconscious,  but  it  is  done.  Their  lives  are  the  stone  and 
mortar  out  of  which  these  structures  are  made.  Or,  to  change  the 
figure,  if  you  could  photograph  such  a  intangible  a  thing  as  an 
institution,  like  our  College  of  Letters  or  our  Theological  School, 
you  would  find  on  developing  the  plate  that  you  had  produced  what 
is  known  as  a  composite  photograph,  in  which  are  commingled 
lineaments  of  all  the  characters  and  lives  of  the  men  and  women 
who  have  wrought  themselves  into  it.  Each  has  contributed  some- 
thing. It  may  be  indistinguishable  in  the  general  portrait,  but  it  is 
there. 

Now  to  these  two  men,  Dr.  Fisher  and  Dr.  Gaines,  more  than  to 
any  others,  perhaps  it  is  fair  to  say  more  than  to  all  others,  we  owe 
the  character  of  St.  Lawrence  University  in  its  two  departments,  its 
spirit,  its  quality  of  work,  its  distinctive  individuality  among  the 
educational  institutions  of  the  land,  the  kind  of  training  which  it 
gives,  and  the  stamp  which  it  puts  upon  its  graduates. 

Dr.  Fisher,  in  mind  and  character,  intellectually  and  spiritually, 
was  a  very  great  man.  It  was  often  said  of  him  in  his  life  time, 
"What  a  statesman  he  would  have  made,  what  a  legislator  or  judge, 
if  he  had  turned  his  great  faculties  to  the  study  of  law  instead  of 
divinity!"  He  had  a  mind  of  crystal  clearness  and  a  logical  faculty 
that  never  missed  its  aim.  He  was  absolutely  sane.  He  was  in 
character  simple  as  a  child,  tender  as  a  woman,  spiritually  as  devout 
as  a  prophet.  It  should  have  been  said  of  him  as  of  the  Patriarch 
of  old,  "He  walketh  with  God."  He  was  absolutely  without  pre- 
tense. He  never  seemed  to  know  that  there  was  any  other  way  to 
live  and  act  but  by  the  law  of  love  and  righteousness.    He  was 


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singularly  tolerant  of  the  opinions  of  others,  and  in  his  teaching 
never  dreamed  of  combating  them  with  his  superior  authority. 
His  appeal  was  always  to  reason  and  justice.  When  the  crude 
notions  of  his  pupils  could  not  be  removed  by  these  means  he 
patiently  waited  for  the  time  when  they  would  outgrow  them.  He 
had  exhaustless  patience  and  charity  for  the  mistakes  and  faults  of 
men,  especially  of  young  men.  He  must  have  had  a  vision  of 
unseen  things  not  given  to  most  men  to  have  discerned  promise  of 
great  worth  in  some  of  us  who  came  before  him.  He  was  extremely 
hopeful  of  even  the  poorest  among  us.  To  him  nothing  but  abso- 
lute reality,  in  religion  and  in  life,  had  merit.  The  specious  show 
of  affected  piety,  the  tricks  and  mummeries  of  ritualism,  had  no 
attraction  for  his  sincere  mind.  With  all  there  was  a  racy  sense  of 
humor  which  served  greatly  to  lubricate  the  wheels  of  a  laborious 
and  care-burdened  life.  All  this  and  much  more  that  cannot  be 
put  into  the  form  of  words  was  embodied  in  a  personality  of  great 
but  simple  dignity.  It  is  easy  to  see  that  so  great,  so  devout,  so 
strong,  so  kindly,  so  transparently  sincere  a  soul  would  make  a 
profound  impression  upon  the  young  men  who  for  three  years 
came  under  his  daily  instruction.  It  was  so.  For  nineteen  years 
he  infused  that  sort  of  character  into  the  institution  which  he  cre- 
ated, a  character  which  it  has  never  lost. 

Dr.  Gaines  was  a  man  cast  in  something  of  the  same  mould,  dif- 
fering of  course  in  many  personal  characteristics.  But  he  had  the 
same  absolute  sincerity  of  mind,  the  same  logical  clearness  of 
thought,  the  same  rugged  strength  and  simplicity  of  character,  the 
same  unswervable  loyalty  to  truth  and  duty,  the  same  distaste  for 
all  sorts  of  sham  and  pretence — a  great  and  noble  spirit,  generous, 
magnanimous,  wholly  devoted  to  the  right  doing  of  the  work  to 
which  God  had  called  him.  He  never  seemed  to  think  of  himself, 
but  only  of  others  and  the  service  he  might  render  them— a  man 
wise  in  counsel,  a  born  teacher  and  leader  of  the  young.  Fortunate 
the  young  man  who  could  come  under  his  moulding  touch  in 
intellectual  and  moral  things.  I  have  no  doubt  that  his  scholarship 
had  a  wider  range  than  that  of  his  great  coadjutor,  and  he  entered 
upon  no  field  of  knowledge  he  did  not  master.  My  own  relations 
to  him  were  not  those  of  pupil  to  teacher,  as  in  the  other  case,  but 
as  co-worker  with  him  in  the  administration  of  the  college,  being 
his  successor.  He  continued  his  work  in  the  class-room  during  all 
my  term  of  service,  and  indeed  to  the  day  of  his  death.  I  can 
truly  say  that  no  man  could  give  a  heartier  welcome  to  a  successor, 
or  work  with  him  more  loyally  or  with  a  more  faithful  and  cordial 
co-operation  than  did  he  with  me.  But  I  am  not  left  to  my  own 
observation  and  experience  for  a  knowledge  of  what  he  was  to  the 
college  in  the  thirty  years  which  he  devoted  to  its  service.  It  is  the 
unanimous  voice  of  the  classes  which  came  under  his  instruction, 


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and  the  graduates  who  went  forth  from  the  college  during  his  time, 
that  he  was  one  of  the  great  educators  of  his  day;  that  to  him  must 
be  given  chief  credit  for  making  that  department  of  the  University 
the  friend  of  true  learning,  the  promoter  of  noble  manhood  and 
womanhood,  which  it  is. 

Soon  after  the  death  of  Dr.  Fisher,  Dr.  Almon  Gunnison,  then 
pastor  of  All  Soul's  church  in  Brooklyn  and  a  trustee  of  the 
University,  came  to  me  and  insisted  that  I  should  undertake  to 
raise  money  enough  among  the  graduates  and  other  friends  of  the 
Theological  School  to  build  a  hall  for  that  department  in  memory 
of  its  late  lamented  head.  I  don't  suppose  that  any  of  you  know  as 
well  as  I  what  a  genius  this  man  has  for  getting  his  friends  into 
trouble.  I  have  learned  to  more  than  suspect  him.  I  have  learned 
to  know  him,  and  when  he  makes  a  demand  of  that  sort,  there  is 
really  but  one  thing  to  do,  and  that  is  to  go  about  and  do  what  he 
wants  you  to  do.  Of  course  I  went  out  and  did  what  I  could,  and 
if  my  memory  serves  me  rightly,  succeeded  in  getting  together 
during  the  summer  subscriptions  to  the  amount  of  about  half  the 
cost  of  the  building.    It  was  dedicated  as  Fisher  Hall  in  1883. 

During  all  these  years  since  the  founding  of  the  University,  the 
Theological  Department — the  funds  of  which  were  by  the  charter 
to  be  kept  separate  from  those  of  the  college — by  reason  of  its 
peculiar  appeal  to  the  interest  and  loyalty  of  the  Universalist  public, 
found  its  endowment  steadily  growing  by  gifts  and  bequests  of 
various  amounts.  Not  so  with  the  college.  It  had  no  public  be- 
hind it  save  the  at  that  time  more  or  less  indifferent  general  public 
in  Northern  New  York.  It  was  found  to  be  almost  impossible  to 
interest  strangers  at  a  distance  in  the  work  and  welfare  of  the 
literary  department  of  the  University,  Its  graduates  were  poor 
men  who  had  not  been  long  enough  away  from  college  to  have 
"made  their  pile",  and  there  were  almost  no  others  to  appeal  to. 
The  consequence  was  that  there  was  an  annual  deficit  in  its  ac- 
counts which  the  trustees  partly  made  up  by  going  down  into  their 
pockets,  and  partly  by  allowing  the  institution  to  run  more  and 
more  deeply  in  debt.  So  things  went  on  from  bad  to  worse  till,  in 
1835,  the  situation  became  critical.  It  was  seen  that  something 
decisive  must  be  done  and  done  at  once,  or  the  College 
of  Letters  and  Science  must  close  its  doors.  The  report  of  the 
Treasurer  in  the  fall  of  1886  showed  that  the  productive  endow- 
ment of  the  college  was  barely  $50,000,  while  that  of  the  Theological 
School  was  $112,000. 

I  need  not  undertake  to  detail  in  this  address  how  the  crisis  was 
met  by  all  connected  with  the  University,  faculty  and  undergradu- 
ates together.  The  memory  of  it  is  a  part  of  the  heroic  traditions 
of  St.  Lawrence.  That  mass  meeting  at  which  a  small  body  of 
students,  all  of  whom  were  poor  and  most  of  whom  were  working 


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their  way  through  college,  unexpectedly  came  forward  and  pledged 
themselves  to  contribute  over  a  thousand  dollars  ($1300  to  be  exact) 
toward  the  fifty  thousand  needed  to  save  the  institution,  will 
never  be  forgotten  by  any  who  took  part  in  it.  The  inspiration  of 
it  gave  us  the  "Scarlet  and  Brown",  one  of  the  few  undying  col- 
lege songs  of  the  century— a  song  first  sung  on  that  day,  but  which 
Laurentians  will  sing  when  the  lapse  of  time  shall  have  blotted  out 
the  stor>'  of  its  birth  to  all  save  the  antiquarian.  This  enthusiasm 
was  contagious,  and  before  the  end  of  18S7  it  was  reported  that  the 
fifty  thousand  dollars  were  nearly  all  pledged,  one  fourth  by  the 
alumni  and  more  than  half  by  citizens  of  St.  Lawrence  county. 

In  the  course  of  the  canvass  it  had  been  found  that  certain  gen- 
erous givers  would  double  their  contributions  if  the  new  endow- 
ment could  be  increased  to  a  full  one  hundred  thousand.  In  the 
summer  of  1888  Dr.  Gunnison  came  to  me  with  the  proffer,  backed 
by  such  urgency  as  he  alone  knows  how  to  make,  of  the  Presidency 
of  the  College — a  place,  I  am  bound  to  say,  I  never  so  much  as 
dreamed  I  was  capable  of  filling.  To  this  day  I  no  not  know  by 
what  means  he  was  able  to  overcome  my  disinclination  to  so  heavy 
a  task;  for  it  was  at  the  same  time  made  known  to  me  that,  for  the 
college  really  to  live  and  go  on,  at  least  a  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars must  be  had — and  it  was  still  twenty-six  thousand  short.  If  I 
undertook  it  I  must  "make  good"  that  amount  before  September 
of  the  next  year. 

I  have  never  ceased  to  wonder  at  the  audacity  of  my  friend  nor  at 
my  own  presumption  in  consenting  to  try  so  perilous  a  venture. 
But  as  good  luck  would  have  it  I  was  able  to  report  at  the  com- 
mencement in  June  that  the  whole  amount  was  pledged,  and  the 
college  finally  saved  and  put  on  a  living  basis.  The  crisis  was 
passed.  But  the  credit  certainly  is  due  far  less  to  me  than  to  the 
generosity  of  the  friends  of  the  college  who  rallied  to  its  support  in 
the  day  of  its  need. 

You  will,  I  hope,  pardon  me  a  few  words  concerning  the  things 
that  were  done  during  the  six  years  of  my  administration  of  the 
college.  The  endowment,  either  paid  in  or  pledged,  was  increased 
by  something  over  eighty  thousand  dollars.  The  constituency  of 
the  college  was  considerably  widened,  and  the  number  of  students 
increased  from  about  sixty  to  at  one  time  very  nearly  one  hundred 
and  fifty.  They  were  also  drawn  from  a  much  wider  territory. 
The  catalogue  of  1888  showed  that  all  of  the  students  were  resi- 
dents of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  all  but  less  than  half  a  dozen 
of  St.  Lawrence  County.  During  my  incumbency  the  catalogue 
would  show  that  at  one  time  there  were  students  from  no  less  than 
eleven  different  States  of  the  Union.  For  the  first  time  in  its  history 
the  college  was  made  to  pay  its  expenses  from  its  income,  which  I 
believe  it  has  done  ever  since,  with  possibly  the  exception  of  a  year 


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or  two.  A  system  of  electives  in  the  studies  was  introduced  and 
soon  enlarged.  The  discipline  of  the  college  was,  after  much 
patient  effort,  put  upon  the  basis  of  rationality  and  what  may  be 
called  "moral  suasion,"  and  came  at  last  to  be  almost  ideally  per- 
fect. Not  only  were  all  disorders  and  "hazing"  eliminated,  but 
apparently  all  desire  for  that  sort  of  barbarism  was  banished  from 
the  minds  of  the  students.  It  could  not  be  done  in  a  month  or  a 
year,  but  it  was  done. 

For  three  of  the  six  years  I  lived  a  peripetetic — I  almost  said 
predatory — life,  being  on  the  road  much  the  greater  part  of  the  time 
searching  for  money  and  students.  During  the  other  three  years,  in 
addition  to  much  travel,  I  heard  recitations  and  conducted  examin- 
ations in  the  class-room.  By  no  forced  construction  of  language 
that  I  am  acquainted  with  could  it  be  said,  I  believe,  that  I  actually 
taught.  I  occupied  what  is  called  in  the  catalogue  a  "chair,"  but 
what,  from  the  number  and  variety  of  the  subjects  I  had  to  deal 
with,  might  more  properly  be  called  a  "settee."  But  however  lit- 
tle I  taught  the  students,  I  can  bear  testimony  to  the  fact  that  they 
taught  me  a  great  many  things.  In  fact,  I  found  out  that  those 
persons  connected  with  the  college  who  learn  most  are  the  Faculty. 
They  have  to  know  their  lessons  whether  the  students  do  or  not. 
And  not  the  least  interesting  and  instructive  subjects  which  they 
study  are  the  students  and  their  ways.  To  be  "wise"  in  that  is  to 
have  a  liberal  education.  It  must  be  remembered  that  I  had  to 
acquire  a  new  profession  in  learning  to  run  the  college,  but  I  had 
the  faithful  help  of  the  Faculty.  I  needed  often  and  much  the 
advice  of  more  experienced  men,  and  the  wise  counsel  especially  of 
Professor  Priest,  the  Dean  of  the  Faculty,  and  of  Professor  Gaines, 
never  failed  me.    I  shall  never  cease  to  be  grateful  for  it. 

I  must  be  allowed  to  mention  the  name  of  another  man  to  whom 
the  college  in  those  trying  days  owed  much — George  Robinson,  who 
served  as  trustee  twenty-seven  years  and  as  treasurer  seventeen. 
He  had  no  enthusiasm  for  my  administration;  but  I  much  doubt  if 
the  college  ever  had  a  more  zealous  servant  or  a  more  devoted 
friend. 

Dr.  Isaac  Morgan  Atwood  was  called  to  succeed  Dr.  Fisher,  and 
the  work  of  the  Theological  Department  went  on  under  his  able 
management  for  twenty  years  much  on  the  lines  originally  laid 
down,  and  always,  I  believe,  in  the  spirit  of  intellectual  freedom 
and  the  supreme  reverence  for  truth  in  thought  and  genuineness  in 
character  which  has  ever  distinguished  St.  Lawrence. 

On  the  departure  of  Dr.  Cone  to  Buchtel  in  1880,  Dr.  Henry  Pren- 
tiss Forbes  was  called  to  fill  the  vacancy.  Subsequently  the  curri- 
culum was  somewhat  enlarged  so  as  to  include  sociological  studies, 
and  Dr.  Lewis  F'isher,  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  Fisher,  was 
appointed  to  teach  these  subjects  in  1891;  he  remained  in  the  school 


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till  called  away  to  take  the  presidency  of  Lombard  in  1905.  St. 
Lawrence  seems  to  be  a  sort  of  nursery  for  college  presidents. 

During  two  years  after  ray  retirement  the  college  was  without  a 
president.  In  1895  Dr.  John  Clarence  Lee,  of  the  class  of  '76,  was 
elected  President  and  remained  at  the  head  of  the  college  for  three 
years.  During  his  administration  the  Gymnasium  was  built,  and 
the  scope  of  electives  much  extended. 

At  the  end  of  that  time,  viz.  in  1899,  both  Dr.  Lee  and  Dr.  Atwood 
resigned,  and  the  trustees,  deciding,  very  wisely  I  think,  to  unite 
the  two  presidencies  in  one  person,  called  Dr.  Gunnison  to  the  pres- 
idency of  the  University.  Of  Dr.  Gunnison's  admirable  and  most 
successful  work  it  is  needless  for  me  to  speak  at  length.  It  is  so 
recent  and  it  is  so  obvious  to  the  eyes  of  all  that  it  speaks  for  itself. 
The  endowment  of  the  Richardson  Professorship,  the  completion  of 
the  fund  for  the  Woman's  Professorship,  the  absorption  by  the  col- 
lege of  the  defunct  Clinton  Liberal  Institute,  the  establishment  of  a 
considerable  number  of  new  free  scholarships,  the  building  of  the 
Cole  Reading  Room  and  the  Carnegie  Hall  of  Science,  the  reno- 
vation of  the  old  college  building,  the  purchase  and  fitting  up  of  the 
Athletic  Field,  the  establishment  of  a  flourishing  Law  School  in 
Brooklyn  under  the  aegis  of  St.  Lawrence,  and,  latest  of  all,  the 
founding  by  the  legislature  of  a  Department  of  Agriculture  in  the 
University,  with  the  large  increase  in  the  number  of  students,  make 
a  record  of  seven  years'  work  of  which  any  man  may  well  be  proud, 
and  for  which  the  friends  of  the  University  can  never  be  too  grateful. 

Let  me  mention  in  closing  some  of  the  names  of  those  men  and 
women  whose  gifts  of  money  have  made  the  University  possible. 
Among  the  early  benefactors  of  the  Theological  School  were  Charles 
A.  Ropes  of  Salem,  Mass.,  George  A.  Dockstader  of  New  York, 
Augustus  C.  Moore  of  Buffalo,  and  John  Craig  of  Rochester. 
Later  were  Sarah  A.  Gage  of  Hudson,  Dr.  William  H.  Ryder  of  Chi- 
cago, and  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Richardson,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

Among  those  who  at  an  early  date  contributed  large  sums  to  the 
endowment  of  the  college  are  Alvinza  Hayward  of  California,  and 
Columbus  R.  Cummings  of  Chicago.  But  more  than  to  any  one 
else  the  college  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  Mrs.  J.  H.  Chapin,  the 
widow  of  Dr.  Chapin,  our  honored  and  lamented  fellow  teacher, 
and  to  her  mother,  Mrs.  Harriet  Lewis,  of  Meriden,  Conn.  The 
former  endowed  the  Professorship  of  Mineralogy  and  Geology  in 
memory  of  her  husband,  who  for  many  years  conducted  the  studies 
in  these  sciences  in  the  college  as  a  labor  of  love.  She  thus  per- 
petuates in  the  University  the  name  of  one  held  in  the  highest 
esteem,  both  for  his  learning  and  his  ever  faithful  friendship  to  the 
college.  Mrs.  Lewis  contributed  much  the  greater  part  of  the  funds 
for  the  endowment  of  the  Woman's  Professorship  of  Modern  Lan- 
guages, a  chair  which  rightly  bears  her  revered  name. 


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Besides  those  already  mentioned  as  contributing  to  the  buildings 
and  funds  of  the  University,  I  wish  to  speak  with  honor  and  grati- 
tude of  Mr.  E.  M.  Cole,  of  Brooklyn,  the  giver  of  the  Reading 
Room,  and  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie,  the  founder  of  our  splendid  new 
Science  Hall.  Nor  must  I  forget  an  early  graduate  of  the  Theo- 
logical School,  J.  W.  Hinds,  whose  generous  gifts  have  enabled  us 
to  construct  and  adorn  the  beautiful  chapel  in  the  Fisher  Memorial 
Hall. 

Around  the  University  clusters  a  little  group  of  Greek-letter 
societies,  including  a  chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  with  their  several 
houses,  one  of  which  adorns  a  site  on  the  campus.  I  regret  to  say 
that  the  older  of  the  women's  societies,  the  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma, 
has  been  the  victim  of  a  conspiracy  of  unreason  and  malice,  on  the 
part  of  the  governing  body,  which  I  venture  to  affirm  is  quite 
unique  in  the  history  of  college  fraternities  in  this  country,  and  as  a 
consequence  has  ceased  to  exist  as  such.  I  should  like  to  char- 
acterize the  action  of  that  body  in  fitting  terms,  but  both  my  pro- 
fession and  the  presence  of  ladies  in  this  assembly  forbid. 

I  must  not  fail  to  mention  in  passing  the  fact  that  since  the 
beginning  of  1888  the  undergraduates  have  maintained  a  very  cred- 
itable monthly  publication— The  Laurentian— which  illustrates 
something  of  both  the  literary  spirit  and  the  business  ability  of  the 
student  body.  I  believe  the  athletics  of  the  University  have  never 
attained  an  eminence  which  have  made  them  the  supreme  interest 
of  the  college  life  here.  Perhaps  the  presence  of  a  large  propor- 
tion of  women  in  the  college  has  spared  us  that  affliction. 

There  is  a  saying  of  Jesus,  "By  their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them." 
St.  Lawrence  is  quite  willing  that  her  first  fifty  years  of  life  should 
be  tested  by  that  maxim.  Her  work  has  always  been  honest  and 
thorough,  and  the  products  of  her  instruction  and  discipline  in  the 
cultivated  and  efficient  men  and  women  who  have  gone  forth  from 
her  halls  right  well  testify  to  this  thoroughness  and  honesty.  In  all 
the  departments  of  life  where  trained  minds  and  high  character 
are  in  demand  Laurentians  are  found  in  the  front  rank.  Let  a 
Laurentian  get  his  feet  down  anywhere  and  he  will  proceed  at 
once  to  develop  locomotion.  He  will  forge  to  the  front,  whether  it 
be  in  Boston,  New  York,  Chicago,  or  the  Islands  of  the  Sea. 

He  is  found  too  in  the  higher  walks  of  creative  literature.  Two 
of  my  own  boys  have  already  made  a  name  for  themselves,  Silas 
Lottridge  in  the  popularization  of  natural  science,  and  "Ed"  Lent  in 
addingto  "the  "gayety  of  nations' '  by  "Being  Done  Good. "  If  Mark 
Twain  has  a  legitimate  successor  on  the  globe  to-day  he  is  "Ed" 
Lent,  a  man  with  a  genius  which  can  extort  inextinguishable  laugh- 
ter from  the  tortures  and  twinges  of  rheumatic  pain.  Nobody  has 
done  that  before,  and  no  one  but  a  Laurentian  could.  The  genius 
of  St.  Lawrence  seems  to  run  largely  to  humor.    There  is  Heaton 


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with  his  "Quiltin'  Bee,"  and  there  is  Gunnison  with  his  "Rambles"; 
nobody  but  a  humorist  of  genius  could  make  a  disembodied  pair  of 
trousers  travel  all  over  California,  themselves  more  than  half  con- 
scious of  their  ridiculous  plight,  and  exciting  mirth  all  along  the 
way. 

And  who  but  Irving  Bacheller  could  transform  our  prosy  North 
Country,  as  with  the  touch  of  an  enchanter's  wand,  into  a  land  of 
poetry  and  romance?  We  shall  have  to  name  him  as  they  did  Sir 
Walter  after  the  advent  of  Waverley,  "The  Wizard  of  the  North." 
Or  who,  let  me  ask,  in  English  fiction,  has  ever  made  the  life  and 
spirit  of  the  Greece  of  Pericles  live  again  in  our  modern  days  as  they 
do  in  "Gorgo"  ?  If  Theramenes  himself  had  possessed  the  genius  of 
Plutarch  he  couldn't  have  made  the  story  of  his  life  more  vital,  or 
more  truly  Greek,  than  Professor  Gaines  has  made  it. 

These,  brethren,  are  the  achievements  which  crown  our  Alma 
Mater!  What  word  can  we  say  that  shall  tell  the  gladness  of  our 
hearts  on  this  day  of  jubilee.?  How  can  we  speak  our  undying 
gratitude  for  what  she  has  given  us?  When  we  think  how  enriched 
our  lives  have  been  in  things  of  the  spirit,  in  our  knowledge  of 
literature,  of  science,  of  history,  of  the  plastic  and  pictorial  arts,  of 
philosophy,  and  then  reflect  that  it  was  she  who  opened  to  us  the 
gate  to  all  this,  who  first  taught  us  to  see  and  understand  and  then 
led  us  forth  into  this  wondrous  world  of  imperishable  things,  it  is 
no  wonder  that  our  hearts  overflow  and  that  there  are  thoughts  in 
us  too  deep  for  words.  Think  what  she  has  stood  for  of  sound 
learning  and  noble  living  in  this  North  Country  for  half  a  hundred 
years;  of  the  cheer  and  hope  she  has  brought  to  the  hearts  of  young 
men  and  women  here,  who  longed  for  an  education  but  to  whom 
the  great  universities  of  the  land  were  forever  beyond  reach! 

As  another  has  said  speaking  of  the  ideals  which  had  dominated 
the  life  of  one  of  the  great  universities,  "She  has  clearly  taught 
that  good  methods  must  bow  to  fine  results;  that  learning  is  the 
handmaid  of  wisdom;  that  character  is  the  jewel,  and  culture  but 
the  setting;  that  the  supreme  aim  of  all  education,  formal  or  in- 
formal, is  to  make  men  who  can  see  clearly,  imagine  vividly,  think 
soundly,  and  will  nobly  for  their  country's  service."  I  believe  it  is 
not  too  much  to  say  that  St.  Lawrence  in  all  her  history  has  kept 
this  faith. 

Lowell  writes,  "Material  success  is  good,  but  only  as  the  neces- 
sary preliminary  of  better  things.  The  measure  of  a  nation's  true 
success  is  the  amount  it  has  contributed  to  the  thought,  the  moral 
energy,  the  intellectual  happiness,  the  spiritual  hope  and  conso- 
lation of  mankind."  Is  it  not  so  with  a  college?  It  is  not  great 
wealth  nor  great  numbers;  it  is  the  product  it  turns  out  in  its  grad- 
uates, the  genuine  love  for  learning  which  it  cultivates,  the  high 
ideals  of  life  which  it  creates  in  the  minds  of  the  young. 


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Lowell  continues,  "The  garners  of  Sicily  are  empty  now,  but  the 
bees  from  all  climes  still  fetch  honey  from  the  tiny  garden-plot  of 
Theocritus.  On  a  map  of  the  world  you  may  cover  Judea  with 
your  thumb,  Athens  with  a  finger  tip,  and  neither  of  them  figure  in 
the  prices  current;  but  they  still  lord  it  in  the  thought  and  action  of 
every  civilized  man.  Did  not  Dante  cover  with  his  hood  all  that 
was  Italy  six  hundred  years  ago?  And  if  you  go  back  a  century 
where  was  Germany  outside  of  Weimar?" 

So  of  our  dear  old  mother.  Here  in  this  obscure  corner  of  the 
world,  behind  the  great  woods  of  the  North  Country,  she  has  kept 
the  fires  of  the  intellectual  life  burning.  Here  she  has  set  up  a 
kindly  light  whose  pleasant  beams  have  spread  far  about,  to  be  a 
cheer  to  those  who  sit  in  darkness,  to  be  a  guide  to  those  who  are 
seeking  out  the  better  way.  So  we  look  up  to  her  to-day  with  glad 
and  grateful  hearts,  and  hail  her  with  all  good  wishes  and  all  high 
hopes  for  her  thrice  beneficent  and  thrice  glorious  future. 

BACCALAUREATE  SERMON 
At  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  the  Baccalaureate  Ser- 
mon was  preached  in  the  Town  Hall  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  L  M. 
Atv^ood,  former  president  of  the  Theological  School.  This 
too  was  a  model  after  its  kind — full-freighted  with  thought, 
very  timely,  delivered  with  earnestness  and  power.  Tak- 
ing for  his  text  Matt.  VL  23,  "If  therefore  the  light  that 
is  in  thee  be  darkness,  how  great  is  that  darkness!"  Dr, 
At  wood  said: 

The  highest  use  and  value  of  a  human  being  depends  on  his 
being  true.  We  may  take  our  choice  among  several  words  that 
are  used  to  describe  what  we  mean.  We  may  say  of  a  man  that  he 
is  genuine,  sincere,  honest,  true,  fair,  or  square.  Or  we  may  adopt 
the  expressive  phrase,  coined  among  the  people  of  our  own  time, 
and  say  he  is  "the  real  thing."  Whichever  we  fix  upon  we  shall 
mean  that  quality  in  a  person  which  makes  him  ring  true;  and 
we  shall  all  agree  that  it  is  the  most  valuable  human  trait.  It  is 
not  the  same  thing  as  frankness,  which  is  .the  correspondence  of  the 
outside  with  the  inside  of  a  person.  One  may  be  frankly  mean,  or 
frankly  narrow,  or  frankly  selfish,  or  frankly  brutal,  or  frankly  a 
fool.  There  is  no  great  worth  in  that.  But  the  thing  we  are  think- 
ing of  here  connotes  moral  value,  durable  virtue.  There  are  cer- 
tain colors,  odors,  essences,  which  are  standards,  by  which  we  reg- 
ulate all  others.  If  we  should  fall  into  confusion  as  to  what  is 
green,  or  blue,  or  white;  as  to  what  is  sweet  or  sour;  as  to  stone  or 
wood  or  iron,  we  should  be  undone.  Imagine  a  world  where  salt  is 
not  salt!    Or  where  salt  has  lost  its  savor! 


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Now  the  quality  we  most  relish  in  our  fellows  is  their  honesty. 
This  is  fundamental,  regulative,  indispensable.  I  think  I  prefer  on 
the  whole  the  term  "true. ' '  We  want  our  men  and  our  women  to  be 
true.  This  is  the  light  that  is  in  them;  and  if  it  be  darkness,  how 
great  is  that  darkness! 

It  must  be  conceded  that  the  members  of  our  large  family  betray 
a  predilection,  we  might  say  a  talent,  for  equivocation.  The  temp- 
tation to  evade  unpleasant  contacts,  to  disguise  selfish  feelings,  to 
put  a  fairer  face  on  events  than  they  will  warrant,  and  to  round  out 
and  liven  up  the  fiat,  dull  monotone  of  daily  history,  is  so  great 
that  it  usually  comes  to  pass  that  "one  man  in  his  time  acts  many 
parts;"  and  the  time  may  not  be  long  either.  To  such  causes  and 
to  the  pressure  of  real  or  imagined  self-interest  must  be  attributed 
the  fact  that  so  many  never  attain  to  utter  sincerity,  and  so  many 
that  have  attained  fall  away  and  become  dissemblers  again. 

When  I  had  not  been  long  a  citizen  of  this  town,  a  well-known 
character  took  me  to  ride  to  prove  a  horse  he  wished  to  sell  me. 
"There,"  said  he,  "Doctor,  is  an  animal  a  man  would  like  to  own. 
She  is  gentle  as  a  kitten,  keeps  easy,  afraid  of  nothing,  will  take 
you  eight  or  ten  miles  an  hour  over  these  roads,  and  I  offer  her  at  a 
bargain. ' '  That  seemed  a  straight  story,  supported  by  appearances. 
If  I  had  believed  in  the  man  as  much  as  I  did  in  the  horse,  I  should 
have  closed  that  trade. 

It  has  often  been  noticed  and  commented  upon  that  it  is  much 
easier  to  frame  a  noble  ideal  of  life  than  to  pursue  it  without  waver- 
ing. Young  men  and  women  come  forth  from  their  first  baptism 
of  lofty  thinking  and  high  enthusiasm,  such  as  may  have  been  kin- 
dled in  the  Christian  home,  or  church,  or  college,  and  start  on  the 
road  of  business  or  professional  life;  and  as  we  watch  them  during 
the  first  decade,  we  note  how  they  surrender  one  after  another  their 
pristine  principles  and  come  down  to  the  level  of  the  men  and 
women  with  whom  they  mingle  or  complete,  or  on  whose  support 
they  depend.  It  is  a  pathetic  fact.  How  few  men  cling,  like  Carl 
Schurz,  to  their  early  ideals!  Behold  one  young  man  disillusioned. 
The  nonsense  has  been  knocked  out  of  him,  his  comrades  now  say. 
He  has  come  out  of  the  skies.  He  treads  on  the  solid  common 
earth.  He  indulges  no  dreams.  His  stomach  is  full,  perhaps  his 
purse  is  full.  For  he  may  agree  with  that  official  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad  who  said,  after  confessing  to  receiving  some  stock 
that  he  did  not  pay  for,  "Well,  if  there  was  money  passing  around 
I  was  there  to  take  it."  The  light  that  was  in  him  has  become 
darkness. 

We  hear  it  said  that  this  is  the  corrosion  of  a  commercialized 
and  materialistic  age.  But  I  have  not  been  able  to  hear  of  any  age 
when  the  same  thing  did  not  happen.  I  think  there  is  more  cor- 
ruption and  graft  and  moral  insensibility  than  in  any  previous  age — 


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more  in  volume.  But  there  are  more  people,  there  is  more  busi- 
ness, there  are  more  temptations.  On  the  other  hand  I  believe,  after 
much  study  and  reflection  on  the  question,  that  there  are  more  men 
and  women  of  unbending  principle  and  unfaltering  pursuit  of  noble 
ideals  than  ever  in  the  world's  history.  But  they  are  relatively  so 
few  and  their  voices  so  drowned  in  the  multitudinous  clamor  that 
one  is  likely  to  exclaim,  "What  are  these  among  so  many!" 

Nor  is  it  strange  that  those  who  are  in  the  midst  of  the  madden- 
ing maze  of  things  should  think  the  whole  world  is  going  that  way. 
It  is  more  to  be  wondered  at  that  intelligent  observers,  trained  to 
discriminate,  should  reach  the  same  conclusion.  Algernon  Cecil, 
descendant  of  the  famous  Lord  Burleigh,  himself  an  author  and 
statesman  of  mark,  has  just  written  in  the  Monthly  Review  that  the 
only  political  idealism  England  has  known  in  two  centuries  is  pass- 
ing and  the  last  of  it  will  disappear  in  twenty  years.  No  doubt  he 
thinks  so.  He  betrays  appreciation,  and  some  admiration  for  it, 
but  thinks  it  unsuited  to  a  growing  empire  and  a  practical  age.  So 
the  Liberalism  of  Cobden  and  Bright  and  Mill  and  Gladstone,  the 
Liberalism  of  which  John  Morley  is  the  brilliant  and  noble  living 
representative,  is  a  setting  sun— its  light  becoming  darkness! 

It  would  be  disheartening  indeed  to  feel  that  all  the  brave  hopes 
of  mankind  are  destined  to  go  down  in  final  night.  The  warning 
would  be  a  useless  mockery  if  it  were  so.  But  we  must  distinguish 
between  the  loss  of  this  or  that  battle,  and  the  loss  of  the  war.  No 
one  ever  suffers  the  eclipse  of  his  light  who  does  not  himself  connive 
and  consent.  Many  do  that  and  sink  in  the  fatal  morass, — so  much 
deeper  and  darker  because  they  once  dwelt,  like  Lucifer,  in  the  light. 
But  the  word  of  God  liveth  and  abideth  forever;  to  stand  with  Him 
is  to  walk  in  ever-growing  and  everlasting  light.  I  do  not  for  a 
moment  assent  to  the  idea  that  the  Philistines  are  to  have  their 
heads,  and  wreck  every  human  experiment.  Many  bright  hopes, 
will  no  doubt  go  out  in  solemn  darkness.  But  the  source  of  light 
remains.  Truth,  Freedom,  Knowledge,  Righteousness,  are  suns 
that  never  set. 

CHAPEL  EXERCISES 
Under  President  Gunnison's  administration  the  exercises 
conducted  in  the  college  chapel  on  Monday  morning  have 
become  one  of  the  most  distinctive  and  popular  features  of 
the  commencement  season.  The  present  year  was  no  ex- 
ception in  this  respect.  The  mode  of  procedure  is  this: 
After  the  usual  service  the  discerning  eye  of  the  presiding 
officer  searches  the  faces  of  the  alumni  present,  and  when 
it  rests  on  some  familiar  face  the  voice  of  the  autocrat  calls 
the  honored  but  reluctant  victim  to  the  front  with  appro- 


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priate  but  more  or  less  embarrassing  comments.  Each 
speaker  is  greeted  with  a  storm  of  applause,  and  after  he 
has  aired  his  sentiments  and  exhausted  his  vocabulary  is 
allowed  to  subside  under  cover  of  a  college  song.  The 
series  closes  with  a  sort  of  roof-raising  of  class  and  college 
yells  as  the  assembly  breaks  up.  These  informal  exercises 
bring  the  students  nearer  to  the  alumni  than  anything  else 
except  the  fraternity  banquets,  and  the  speeches,  often 
excellent  in  every  way,  are  distinguished  by  genuineness  of 
tone  and  appeal  to  the  audience  very  strongly. 

The  noisy  hilarity  of  the  subsequent  proceedings  is  never 
allowed  to  invade  the  opening  service.  The  prayer,  offered 
by  Rev.  I.  M.  Atwood,  was  deeply  impressive.  The  col- 
lege song,  the  Scarlet  and  Brown,  was  sung  with  great 
gusto,  students  and  graduates  joining;  so  also  were  sung 
Fides  et  Veritas  and  other  familiar  strains.  The  first  to  be 
called  to  the  platform  was  the  Rev.  George  E.  Cooley,  '97, 
of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  a  graduate  both  of  the  College 
and  the  Theological  School,  who  faced  the  situation  with  his 
old-time  courage  and  cleverness.  The  President  then  called 
up,  in  the  order  given,  Frank  j.  Arnold,  '97,  of  Erasmus 
Hall,  Editor  George  B.  Helmle,  '85,  of  Nyack,  the  Hon. 
Ogden  Fethers,  of  Janesville,  Wis.,  Rev.  J.  D.  Corby,  '86, 
of  Buffalo,  and  Rev.  E.  B.  Saunders,  '00,  of  Fitchburgh, 
Mass.  Mr.  Fethers,  though  not  a  St.  Lawrence  graduate, 
is  a  lifelong  friend  of  the  college,  and  his  speech,  at  once 
entertaining  and  strong  with  feeling,  was  the  most  notable 
event  of  the  morning.  This  was  directly  followed  by  the 
ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION  MEETING 

The  attendance  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Union 
Alumni  Association  was  unusually  large,  although  many  of 
the  members  found  other  attractions  and  failed  to  appear. 

After  the  usual  reports  Professor  G.  R.  Hardie,  as 
Necrologist,  announced  that  the  Necrology  for  the  year 
has  proved  unusually  long,  and  this  has  caused  some  delay, 
but  that  copies  will  be  mailed  to  the  alumni  during  the 
summer. 

A  committee,  consisting  of  Mr.  R.  C.  Ellsworth,  N.  L. 


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Robinson,  W.  J.  Litchfield,  Dr.  A.  B.  Hervey,  and  Rev. 
J.  D.  Corby,  was  appointed  to  compile  and  publish  a  his- 
tory of  St.  Lawrence  University  and  of  the  Clinton  Liberal 
Institute,  and  to  solicit  subscriptions  for  that  purpose;  the 
committee  were  further  instructed  to  co-operate  with  the 
Laurentian  Publishing  Company  with  a  view  to  making 
the  July  number  of  The  Laurentian  a  souvenir  edition, 
covering  the  semi-centennial  anniversary  in  an  adequate 
manner.  Mr.  Litchfield  reported  that  he  had  already  col- 
lected a  sum  of  money  to  help  defray  the  extra  expense 
of  the  publication  of  such  a  souvenir  issue. 

The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  send  a  message  of  en- 
couragement and  good  cheer  to  Foster  L.  Backus,  who 
was  unable  to  be  present  because  of  ill  health. 

It  was  also  voted  that  a  letter  of  condolence  be  sent  in 
the  name  of  the  association  to  Hon.  Vasco  P.  Abbott,  on 
the  death  of  his  son  Worth,  of  the  class  of  'oo,  which 
occurred  the  week  previous  to  commencement. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  coming  year: 
President,  Frank  J.  Arnold,  '96;  Vice-Presidents,  Louis  H. 
Pink,  '04,  Professor  George  E.  Huntley,  '94,  and  Miss  Amy 
Lyon,  '99;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Williston  Manley; 
Executive  Committee,  Professor  J.  Murray  Atwood,  '89, 
Professor  C.  K.  Gaines,  '76,  and  Mrs.  B.  Mahoney-Cun- 
ningham,  '93;  Necrologist,  Professor  G.  R.  Hardie,  '90. 
TRUSTEE  MEETING 

The  Trustees  of  the  University  met  as  usual  in  the 
President's  office  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  Scarcely 
a  member  was  absent — a  marked  contrast  with  the  days  in 
which  it  was  difficult  to  secure  even  a  quorum.  After  the 
reading  of  the  President's  report  and  the  report  of  the 
Treasurer  (both  printed  in  full  on  a  subsequent  page)  and 
the  transaction  of  the  usual  routine  business,  including  the 
conferring  of  the  degrees,  honorary  and  other,  recommend- 
ed by  the  Faculty,  there  ensued  a  prolonged  and  thorough 
discussion  of  some  of  the  topics  suggested  in  the  reports. 
The  state  of  the  University  in  general  was  found  very 
satisfactory  and  full  of  encouragement  for  the  future.  Little 


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immediate  action  was  deemed  necessary.  The  salary  of 
Professor  Mills  was  increased  to  i^iyoo,  as  recommended 
by  the  President,  making  it  the  same  as  that  received  by 
Professors  Gaines,  Hardie,  Ford,  and  Foster.  The  week 
being  crowded  with  events  a  second  meeting  was  not 
arranged  for,  and  the  Trustees  adjourned  for  the  year. 

PHI  BETA  KAPPA  MEETING 
At  five  o'clock  the  local  chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  held 
its  annual  business  meeting  in  Fisher  Hall.  The  report  of 
the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  was  read  and  accepted.  On 
recommendation  of  the  Faculty  the  following  members  of 
the  graduating  class  were  admitted  to  membership:  Anne 
Gertrude  Sneller,  Fanny  Louise  Atwater,  Linn  Rudolph 
Blanchard,  Etta  Evelyn  Eraser,  Jean  Elizabeth  Glassford, 
Clarence  Everett  Barter.  The  newly  admitted  members 
were  then  introduced  and  the  usual  initiation  ceremony 
performed. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  coming  year: 
President,  Principal  W.  B.  Gunnison,  '75;  Vice-President, 
Professor  C.  K.  Gaines,  '76;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Pro- 
fessor R.  D.  Ford,  '85;  Executive  Committee,  W.  B.  Gun- 
nison, C.  K.  Gaines,  R.  D.  Ford,  Dr.  Lucia  E.  Heaton,  '79, 
George  S.  Conkey,  '83,  L.  P.  Hale,  '76,  and  Professor 
Henry  Priest. 

The  Secretary  further  announced  that  Hon.  E.  S.  K. 
Merrell,  '87,  of  Carthage,  had  been  duly  elected  to  mem- 
bership. 

ALUMNI  vs.  UNDERGRADUATES 
As  many  of  the  star  athletes  of  former  days  are  commonly 
present  at  commencement,  an  attempt  on  the  part  of  the 
alumni  to  prove  the  superiority  of  the  past  to  the  present 
by  means  of  a  game  of  baseball  with  the  college  team  is 
usual  on  Monday  afternoon.  This  year  the  demonstration 
was  successful,  though  only  by  a  narrow  margin,  the  score 
standing  six  to  five  in  favor  of  the  graduates. 

THE  PRESIDENT'S  RECEPTION 
The  President's  Reception  on  Monday  evening  was  a 
large  and  brilliant  gathering,  combining  in  an  unusual 


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degree  the  pomp  and  ceremony  of  a  formal  and  important 
affair  with  the  utmost  cordiality  and  freedom.  The  house 
was  beautifully  decorated  with  Mountain  Laurel,  sent  from 
the  President's  former  home,  Worcester,  Mass.  The  ladies 
were  in  gala  attire,  distinguished  and  dignified  judges  and 
doctors  were  much  in  evidence,  but  friend  greeted  friend 
with  the  old  familiar  name  and  with  all  the  old  heartiness, 
and  titles  and  dignity  were  alike  ignored. 

The  President  and  Miss  Gunnison  received  their  guests, 
assisted  by  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Richardson  and  Mrs.  Bullock, 
both  of  Worcester,  Mass.  Mrs.  Professor  Mills  and  Mrs. 
Professor  Ford  presided  at  the  refreshment  table. 

After  the  reception  the  usual  Greek-letter  fraternity  ban- 
quets were  held  in  the  various  chapter  houses.  These 
reunions,  always  a  highly  enjoyable  feature  of  commence- 
ment to  those  who  participate,  were  especially  so  this  year 
from  the  large  number  of  graduate  members  in  attendance. 
BETA  THETA  PI 

The  annual  banquet  of  Beta  Zeta  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  was 
characterized  by  the  presence  of  an  unusually  large  number 
of  alumni.  Over  thirty  representatives  of  earlier  classes 
renewed  their  acquaintance  with  the  active  chapter  at  the 
festal  board,  though  many  others  had  been  obliged  by  con- 
flicting duties  to  leave  before  the  banquet.  George  B. 
Helmle,  '85,  as  toast-master,  inspired  the  speakers  with  his 
own  wit  and  jollity,  and  the  responses,  which  were  all 
impromptu,  rang  with  loyalty  to  Beta  Zeta  and  the  Alma 
Mater.  The  only  note  of  sadness  was  that  occasioned  by 
the  recent  death  of  W.  P.  Abbott,  *oo,  so  lately  a  zealous 
member  of  the  active  chapter  and  loved  by  all  who  knew 
him.  Stanley  E.  Gunnison,  '99,  spoke  with  deep  feeling 
on  this  theme,  and  appropriate  action  was  taken.  The 
gathering  broke  up  at  three  o'clock,  and  was  followed  by 
the  usual  serenades.  The  menus  were  printed  in  scarlet 
and  brown,  with  a  cut  of  the  chapter  house  on  the  outside 
cover,  and  formed  attractive  souvenirs  of  the  occasion. 
The  names  ot  the  alumni  present  will  be  found  in  the  list 
of  commencement  guests. 


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ALPHA  TAU  OMEGA 

On  the  same  evening  Alpha  Omicron  of  Alplia  Tau 
Omega  held  its  annual  banquet.  About  fifty  of  the  active 
chapter  and  alumni  were  present,  and  the  banquet  proved 
one  of  the  most  successful  in  the  history  of  the  chapter. 
Alpha  and  St.  Lawrence  spirit  abounded  throughout 
the  whole  evening,  and  college  and  fraternity  songs  were 
sung  with  great  enthusiasm. 

Harry  M.  Conkey,  '90,  very  ably  acted  as  toast-master, 
and  interesting  toasts  were  given  by  G.  H.  Partridge,  '96, 
F.  H.  Emerson,  '02,  C.  H.  Alexander,  '04,  and  E.  O. 
Hurlbut,  jr.,  '06.  Almost  every  alumnus  present  was 
called  upon  for  an  impromptu  speech.  The  affairs  of  fra- 
ternity and  college  life  were  thoroughly  talked  over,  and 
reminiscences  freely  cited.  Irving  Bacheller,  '82,  was  to 
have  acted  as  toast-master,  but  was  unable  to  attend  be- 
cause of  illness. 

During  the  evening  the  young  ladies  of  the  different 
societies  serenaded,  and  after  the  banquet  the  active 
chapter  and  a  few  of  the  more  enthusiastic  graduates  gave 
the  usual  serenades  to  the  Faculty  and  friends  of  the  fra- 
ternity. 

PHI  SIGMA  KAPPA 
The  annual  alumni  banquet  of  the  Xi  chapter  of  Phi 
Sigma  Kappa  was  held  in  the  chapter  house  parlors.  The 
characteristic  spirit  of  St.  Lawrence  and  of  the  three  T's  ran 
high,  and  the  toasts  were  expressive  of  enthusiastic  loyalty 
both  to  the  university  and  to  the  fraternity.  Rev.  E.  B. 
Saunders,  '04,  made  an  ideal  toast-master,  introducing  each 
speaker  in  a  graceful  and  entertaining  manner.  All  the 
toasts  were  excellent,  but  that  of  Mr.  Black,  '06,  beginning 
humorously  but  ending  in  the  sadness  of  regretful  farewell, 
was  probably  most  deeply  appreciated.  Throughout  the 
evening  college  and  fraternity  songs  were  interspersed 
among  the  toasts.    The  toast-list  was  as  follows: 

Toast-master  Edward  B.  Saunders,  '04 

Welcome  J.  Leland  Ames,  '06 

The  Alumni  Roy  E.  Briggs,  '05 

The  Mystic  T's  Herbert  H.  Dewey,  '04 


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Fraternity  Problems, 
Farewell  


 Luther  Moses,  'OS 

William  E.  Sims,  '07 
Loomis  O.  Black,  '06 


Under  the  head  of  informals,  all  the  alumni  and  some  of 
the  active  chapter  were  called  on  for  impromptu  toasts. 


The  first  annual  banquet  of  Chi  Zeta  Sigma  was  held  in 
the  chapter  house  parlors,  and  the  rooms  were  tastefully- 
decorated  with  flowers  and  pennants,  the  fraternity  colors, 
purple  and  white,  being  everywhere  in  evidence.  H.  B. 
Bailey,  '05,  was  the  only  alumnus  present,  and  contributed 
much  to  the  spirit  of  the  occasion.  C.  L.  East,  '07,  acted 
as  toast-master,  and  introduced  the  following  toasts: 

"Looking  Backward"  H.  L.  Bailey,  '05 

"Reflections"  E.  B.  Scott,  '06 

"Pistis  kai  Philia"  C.  Clark,  '08 

"Fraternity  Spirit"  F.  D.  Sturtevant,  '09 

"Chi  Zeta  Sigma"  S.  C.  Sumner,  '06 

During  the  evening  Omega  Gamma  Sigma  and  Delta 
Delta  Delta  serenaded  the  banqueters. 


The  Alpha  Chapter  of  Eta  Pi  Alpha  held  its  second  com- 
mencement banquet  at  the  Hodskin  House.  A  number  of 
alumni  were  present  to  enjoy  the  repast  with  the  active 
members.  An  interesting  feature  was  the  telling  by  the 
alumni  of  experiences  during  their  college  course.  These 
proved  both  interesting  and  amusing.  Professor  G.  E. 
Huntley,  the  toast-master,  admirably  performed  his  part 
and  introduced  the  following  toasts: 

The  Faculty  Rev.  Dr.  H.  P.  Forbes 

My  World  Rev.  G.  E.  Allison 

Sleep  C.  A.  Moulton 

Little  Rivers  F.  H.  Cooke 

Our  Fraternity  Rev.  G.  E.  Cooley 


The  Zeta  Phi  banquet,  held  at  the  chapter  lodge,  was 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  delightful  in  the  history  of  the 
society.  There  were  nearly  sixty  guests  seated  in  the  long 
parlors,  many  of  whom  were  graduates  who  had  not  been 
back  for  years.    From  Maine  to  Wisconsin,  from  the  bor- 


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ders  of  Canada  to  Mexico,  they  gathered  once  more  under 
the  Aegis  to  "Pledge  their  faith  anew." 

During  the  banquet,  which  was  most  satisfactorily  served 
by  Ella  Miles,  the  undergraduates  took  the  usual  liberties 
with  the  dignified  alumnae,  and  these  in  their  turn  showed 
that  they  had  not  entirely  lost  their  ancient  skill  for 
impromptu  and  impertinent  rhyming.  Whether  the  courses 
were  served  fast  or  served  slowly  no  one  knew  or  cared  in  the 
general  hilarity.  Mrs.  Mary  Atwood-Manley  acted  as  toast- 
mistress  and  called  tor  the  following. 

The  Alumnae  Miss  Hehr,  '07 

Friendship  Miss  Alice  Poste,  '03 

The  Past  Mrs.  Hurlbut,  '78 

The  Senior  Point  of  View  Miss  Stebbins,  '06 

Out  in  the  World  Mrs.  Gaines,  '78 

The  College  Mrs.  Arnold,  '97 

The  Future  Mrs.  Hepburn,  '86 

After  the  regular  list  had  been  given  the  toast-mistress 
called  upon  many  of  the  alumnae  for  impromptu  speeches. 
DELTA  DELTA  DELTA 

On  the  same  evening  Beta  of  Delta  Delta  Delta  held  its 
fifteenth  annual  alumnae  banqet.  The  chapter  house  par- 
lors were  decorated  with  pine,  and  the  tables  were  strewn 
with  pansies  and  sprigs  of  pine.  Mrs.  Irene  Lewis  Bedell, 
'82,  of  New  York,  made  a  charming  toast-mistress,  and 
called  for  the  following  toasts: 

Attainment  Mrs.  Hulett 

Home  Again  Miss  Millen,  '07 

Dreams  Miss  Gertrude  Robinson,  '01 

Delta  Delta  Delta  Mrs.  Dewey,  '04 

Farewell  Miss  Hart,  '06 

Among  the  alumni  present  were  Mrs.  Bedell,  '82,  Mrs. 
Abigail  Casey  Hurley,  '91,  of  Phoenix,  Arizona,  Mrs. 
Sawyer,  '82,  Mrs.  Dewey,  '04,  Miss  Spencer,  '03,  Miss 
Wallace,  '05,  Miss  Helen  Pierce,  of  Watertown,  the  Misses 
Perkins,  and  Mrs.  Hulett. 

OMEGA  GAMMA  SIGMA 

The  annual  banquet  of  Omega  Gamma  Sigma  was  held 
at  Omega  Hall.  Miss  Lavinia  Cunningham  was  brought 
out.    Mrs.  Grace  O.  Townsend  was  the  guest  of  honor. 


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Miss  Per  Lee,  the  toast-mistress,  called  for  responses  to  the 
following  toasts: 


During  the  evening  the  usual  serenades  were  given  and 
received. 

THEOLOGICAL  GRADUATING  EXERCISES 
The  Forty-sixth  Annual  Commencement  of  the  Theo- 
logical School  was  held  on  Tuesday  morning  at  the  Uni- 
versalist  Church,  beginning  at  ten  o'clock.  The  exercises 
were  admirable  in  every  particular,  and  from  first  to  last 
held  the  closest  attention  of  those  assembled.  The  Fac- 
ulty in  full  academic  costume,  headed  by  President  Gunni- 
son, together  with  Rev.  Charles  Conklin,  D.D.,  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  Ex-President  Richmond  Fiske,  D.D.,  of 
Connecticut,  marched  to  the  rostrum,  followed  by  the  can- 
didates for  diplomas  and  degrees. 

Rev.  Dr.  Fisk  offered  prayer.  A  thesis  entitled, 
"Theories  of  the  Origin  of  Evil,"  was  then  given  by  Noble 
Earle  McLaughlin,  of  Baltimore,  Md.  He  stated  in  a 
clear,  concise  manner  the  principal  theories  that  have  been 
advanced  for  the  solution  of  this  problem,  presenting  there- 
with the  best  arguments  for  and  against  each,  advocating 
finally  that  which  the  speaker  held  to  be  the  most  rational 
and  acceptable  explanation  of  the  origin  of  evil. 

Roy  Edward  Griffith,  of  Rochester,  discussed  in  an 
interesting  way  "The  Ethics  of  Christ  in  the  Business 
World."  He  presented  the  situation,  as  it  may  often  be 
seen  to-day,  of  principles  of  private  conduct  in  glaiing 
contrast  to  those  observed  in  commercial  transactions. 
The  divorcement  of  the  sacred  from  the  secular  he  declared 
to  be  largely  responsible  for  this  double  standard  of  morals, 
and  held  that  religion  should  be  vitally  related  to  the  whole 
life  of  man;  the  ethics  of  Jesus  earnestly  applied  to  all 
the  business  relations  of  men  was  the  only  solution  of  the 
grave  problems  that  confronted  society  to-day. 


What  Next  

Fraternity  Ideals  

Our  Girls  

Winsome  Womanhood 


Mrs.  Townsend 


. .  Miss  Upton 
Miss  Pushaw 
, .  Miss  Dailey 


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Both  speakers  acquitted  themselves  in  a  most  creditable 
manner. 

The  annual  address  to  the  graduating  class  was  delivered 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Conklin,  State  Superintendent  of  Churches 
in  Massachusetts.  It  was  the  fitting  word  for  the  occasion, 
concisely  and  effectively  stated,  and  its  eloquent  presenta- 
tion made  a  profound  impression  on  the  graduates  and  all 
who  were  privileged  to  hear. 

Roy  Edward  Griffith  and  Noble  Earle  McLaughlin  then 
received  the  diploma  of  the  Theological  School  for  the 
completion  of  the  three  years  course  of  study.  The  candi- 
dates for  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  were,  in 
addition  to  the  two  already  mentioned,  Loomis  Otis  Black 
and  Lawrence  Alden  Copeland.  In  conferring  the  degrees 
President  Gunnison  in  happily  phrased  words  of  wise  coun- 
sel and  encouragement,  expressed  to  the  graduates  the  con- 
fidence of  their  instructors  in  them,  and  sought  to  impress 
upon  them  the  obligations  they  bore  to  the  University  and 
Church  which  had  given  them  their  preparation,  and  the 
greatness  of  the  work  upon  which  they  were  entering. 

Mrs.  George  M.  Gerrish  and  Mrs.  Stella  B.  Stowell 
added  greatly  to  the  enjoyable  character  of  the  occasion  by 
their  finely  rendered  vocal  solos.  Miss  Storrs  being  the 
accompanist.  The  exercises  concluded  with  the  benediction 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Conklin. 

DEDICATION  OF  CARNEGIE  SCIENCE  HALL 
In  the  afternoon,  beginning  at  two  o'clock,  were  held  the 
dedicatory  exercises  of  the  new  science  building,  Carnegie 
Hall.  Throughout  the  entire  week  this  noble  structure 
was  the  centre  of  attraction  for  visitors.  It  is  commodious, 
admirable  both  in  plan  and  construction,  well  finished  and 
furnished;  only  words  of  commendation  have  been  heard 
in  relation  to  it,  and  these  were  abundant  and  hearty. 
It  lacks,  however,  a  sufficiently  large  assembly  room  to 
accommodate  such  an  audience  as  had  gathered  in  its 
honor;  the  exercises,  therefore,  were  conducted  in  the 
Gymnasium,  which  stands  near.  After  the  prayer  by  Rev. 
Dr.  G.  L.  Perin  and  some  introductory  remarks  by  Presi- 


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dent  Gunnison,  the  architect,  Mr.  Leslie  Chamberlain, 
delivered  the  keys  to  the  President  of  the  Trustees,  Gen. 
Edwin  A.  Merritt,  who  received  them  in  behalf  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  spoke  briefly  in  fitting  terms.  It  is  noteworthy 
that  Gen.  Merritt  was  present  at  the  laying  of  the  corner 
stone  of  the  original  college  building,  now  known  as  Rich- 
ardson Hall,  fifty  years  ago. 

ADDRESS  BY  WILLIS  L.  MOORE 
This  was  followed  by  an  address  by  the  Hon.  Willis  L. 
Moore,  Chief  of  the  Weather  Bureau,  who  has  recently 
brought  about  the  establishment  of  an  observation  station 
at  Canton  in  connection  with  the  University,  for  which 
excellent  accommodations  have  been  provided  in  Carnegie 
Hall.  Already  the  necessary  apparatus  has  been  set  up 
and  a  very  competent  officer  assigned  to  the  post.  Mr. 
Moore,  treating  of  the  relation  of  climate  to  national  char- 
acter as  his  main  topic,  spoke  as  follows,  in  part: 

This  beautiful  and  commodious  building,  which  to-day  you  dedi- 
cate to  the  teaching  of  science  in  St.  Lawrence  University,  is  not 
only  an  evidence  of  the  wonderful  advance  that  has  been  made  in 
our  knowledge  of  nature,  and  of  the  necessity  for  applying  that 
knowledge  to  our  various  industries,  but  it  stands  as  a  monument 
to  the  fact  that  in  this  day  the  only  justification  that  a  man  can 
have  for  the  accumulation  of  more  money  than  he  can  legitimately 
use  for  the  comfort  and  protection  of  himself  and  his  family  is  that  he 
may  give  wisely  and  well;  that  he  may  assist  in  adding  to  human 
knowledge;  that  he  may  use  the  power  which  wealth  has  given  him 
to  lighten  the  burden  that  rests  upon  others,  and  to  uplift  civili- 
zation by  establishing  high  ideals  in  the  public  mind.  Mr.  Carnegie 
has  bestowed  a  benediction  not  only  upon  this  excellent  institution 
of  learning  at  the  close  of  its  semi-centennial,  but  upon  every  young 
man  or  woman  who  in  the  century  to  come  shall  draw  upon  it  for 
the  inspiration  of  a  life's  work. 

I  shall  not  attempt  to  speak  to  you  in  regard  to  the  broad  prin- 
ciples of  science  to  which  this  structure  is  dedicated,  but  rather  to 
tell  you  a  little  of  the  science  in  which  thirty  years  of  my  life  have 
been  spent  as  a  student  and  worker. 

It  is  significant  that  at  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims  practically 
nothing  was  known  of  the  properties  of  the  air  or  of  methods  for 
measuring  its  forces.  It  was  not  until  twenty-three  years  after  the 
landing  of  the  Pilgrims,  that  Torricelli  invented  the  barometer. 
His  great  teacher,  Gallileo,  in  addition  to  the  invention  of  the  tele- 


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scope  and  many  other  useful  things,  had  invented  the  thermometer. 
These  two  instruments  form  the  basis  of  all  meteorological  science. 
The  inventors  as  little  appreciated  the  value  of  their  inventions  as 
they  dreamed  of  the  great  Western  Empire  then  just  rising  from  the 
mists  of  the  western  seas,  which  should  come  into  existence  and  first 
use  their  instruments  to  elucidate  the  phenomena  of  storms. 

To-day  there  are  two  hundred  complete  meteorological  stations 
under  the  control  of  the  United  States  Government.  They  are 
scattered  through  the  broadest  area  anywhere  in  the  world  that  is 
under  the  control  of  one  central  Bureau,  I  shall  confine  myself  to 
a  description  of  the  atmosphere  itself,  variations  in  the  conditions 
of  which  have  so  much  to  do  with  our  health,  our  happiness,  our 
business,  and  our  prosperity. 

Professor  Moore  here  described  at  considerable  length  the 
physical  conditions  of  the  atmosphere,  and  gave  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  manner  in  which  storms  and  cold  waves  operate. 
In  relation  to  the  effects  of  climate  on  character  he  said: 

The  philosopher  Humbolt  says  that  "the  man  is  a  product  of  soil 
and  climate,  and  is  brother  to  the  rocks,  trees,  and  animals." 
Now  our  more  modern  science,  while  agreeing  in  the  main  with  the 
great  philosopher,  would  rather  say  that  man  is  the  product  of  poli- 
tics and  climate;  for  the  falling  rain,  the  trickling  rivulet,  the  rush- 
ing torrent,  and  the  change  in  the  volume  of  matter  due  to  vari- 
ations in  heat  and  cold,  disintegrate  the  rock  and  make  soil;  there- 
fore, soil  is  only  a  function  of  climate,  and  politics  is  the  science  of 
governing  such  animals  as  develop  up  to  the  intelligence  of  man. 

I  want  to  impress  upon  you  how  much  you  owe  to  political  doc- 
trine and  to  the  meteorological  elements  for  your  wealth,  your 
power,  your  good  looks,  and  your  intellect.  You,  my  friends,  are 
simply  the  summation  of  the  climate  and  the  political  environments 
of  a  long  line  of  ancestors— and  climate  is  the  more  import- 
ant. You  give  little  heed  to  the  air  you  breathe,  and  yet  on  its 
purity  depends  the  soundness  of  the  bone  and  the  fibre  of  which 
your  bodies  are  constructed.  Its  thermal  conditions  determine  in 
large  measure  your  physical  potential,  and  the  wideness  of  its  daily 
and  annual  ranges  of  temperature  inspires  you  to  action  that  is 
largely  proportional  to  the  difference  between  summer  heat  and 
winter  cold,— not  absolutely  so,  as  I  will  show  a  little  further  along. 

In  a  climate  where  man  needs  but  little  protection  against  the 
meteorological  elements,  where  he  may  lie  upon  his  back  in  the 
shade  and  with  his  bare  toes  kick  off  all  the  natural  fruit  that  he 
needs  to  nourish  his  body,  you  will  find  no  Alexander,  no  Caesar, 
no  Napoleon;  you  will  find  no  Kepler,  no  Newton,  no  Humbolt; 
you  will  find  no  Washington,  no  Lincoln,  and  no  Grant.  You  will 
find  neither  wealth  nor  power,  no  stability  of  purpose.  Neither 


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will  you  find  human  greatness  in  the  ice-bound  zones  of  the  north, 
where  man's  chief  concern  is  to  get  enough  fish  and  blubber  to 
satisfy  his  hunger  while  he  burrows  down  beneath  the  snows  of 
fierce  winters.  Here  again  you  will  find  a  dwarfing  of  the  spirit  of 
progress. 

It  is  apparent,  therefore,  that  the  most  perfect  co-ordination  of 
the  physical  and  mental  faculties  is  found— and  I  ask  you  to  mark 
this— where  nature  is  neither  so  harsh  as  to  crush  aspirations,  nor 
yet  so  gentle  as  to  lull  desire,  and  where  political  doctrine  allows 
the  freest  exercise  of  individual  opinion.  That  place  is  about  mid- 
way between  the  tropics  and  the  poles,  and  your  progenitors,  my 
friends,  were  so  fortunate  as  to  be  born  within  those  favored  geo- 
graphic boundaries,  wherein  Nature  has  seemed  to  ordain  that  the 
human  potential  shall  be  greater  than  in  any  other  portion  of  the 
earthly  sphere,  and  from  which,  by  a  law  that  is  almost  as  universal 
as  that  of  gravity,  it  flows  northward  and  southward,  decreasing  in 
strength  as  it  gains  in  distance  from  this  favored  thermal  belt. 
Why,  you  can  no  more  restrain  the  growth  and  expansion  and 
power  of  the  American  people,  because  of  their  climatic  and  politi- 
cal inheritance,  than  you  can  reverse  the  laws  of  gravity,  or  cause 
the  Father  of  Waters  to  flow  northward. 

Let  no  man  disparage  the  American  cold  wave;  for  much  of  the 
physical  and  intellectual  energy  that  has  made  this  country  great, 
that  has  caused  it  to  take  a  commanding  place  among  the  great 
nations  of  the  world,  that  has  caused  it  to  excel  in  the  arts,  in  agri- 
culture, in  manufactures,  and  in  commerce,  and  that  will  enable 
it  ultimately  to  liberate  the  white  slave  of  to-day  as  effectually  as  it 
did  the  black  man  in  1865,  was  born  in  the  activity  of  the  cold 
north  wind,  which  brings  such  physical  and  mental  energy  in  its 
mighty  breath.  And  in  this  connection  I  emphasize  the  fact  that 
climate  alone  cannot  make  great  nations.  It  can  make  a  great  peo- 
ple, but  only  under  the  right  kind  of  political  doctrine  can  they 
become  a  great  nation.  The  Russians  have  a  climate  that  produces 
powerful  physical  entities,  but  they  lack  the  freedom  of  individual 
action  that  alone  can  change  the  heterogeneous  power  of  individuals 
into  unified  national  force  with  patriotism  as  its  base. 

It  was  the  desire  for  freedom  of  thought  and  action,  and  the 
recognition  of  man's  inherent  rights  as  against  the  vested  rights  of 
tradition,  that,  combined  with  our  climate,  produced  the  hardy, 
resourceful,  composite  man  that  we  call  the  American  of  to-day. 
This  seed  was  planted  in  Britain,  but  the  tender  plant  that  grew 
from  it  was  soon  torn  from  its  native  heath  and  cast  out  upon  the 
mercy  of  the  winds  and  waves.  They  did  not  want  it  over  there; 
the  time  was  not  yet  ripe  for  it.  But  when  the  Mayflower,  sailing 
westward  on  its  God-given  mission,  gave  that  plant  lodgment  on 
these  shores,  it  found  a  climate  neither  so  mild  as  to  enervate,  like 


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that  in  the  tropics,  nor  so  rigorous  as  to  destroy,  such  as  it  would  have 
found  in  the  Arctic;  and  therefore  it  soon  bore  political  doctrine  so 
beneficent  in  its  growth  and  development  as  to  form  a  priceless 
heritage  to  this  generaton. 

AFTERNOON  RECEPTION 

The  address  was  immediately  followed  by  the  very  enjoy- 
able reception  given  by  Hon.  and  Mrs.  L.  P.  Hale  to  Hon. 
George  R.  Malby,  of  Ogdensburg,  and  Hon.  E.  A.  Merritt, 
jr.,  of  Potsdam.  The  reception  was  in  recognition  of  their 
important  services  in  securing  the  passage  of  the  bill  estab- 
lishing an  agricultural  college  here.  The  reception  com- 
mittee consisted  of  Hon.  and  Mrs.  Hale,  Senator  and  Mrs. 
Malby,  Hon.  and  Mrs.  Merritt,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Irving  Bach- 
eller,  Mrs.  Benton,  to  whom  Canton  owes  its  new  library, 
and  Mrs.  Shultz.  The  ushers  were  Miss  Hale,  '03,  and 
Miss  Jillson.  The  spacious  rooms  of  Judge  Hale's  resi- 
dence were  thronged  by  the  many  who  wished  to  meet  the 
men  whose  influence  has  done  so  much  for  St.  Lawrence, 
the  attendance  of  business  men  being  particularly  large. 
ALUMNI  ANNIVERSARY  REUNION 

Tuesday  evening  was  devoted  to  the  Alumni  Reunion 
meeting,  held  in  the  Town  Hall  and  largely  attended, 
many  from  neighboring  towns  being  present.  The  stage 
was  tastefully  decorated  with  the  scarlet  and  brown,  and 
the  large  oil  paintings  of  Presidents  Ebenezer  Fisher, 
A.  G.  Gaines,  and  J.  S.  Lee  were  displayed  in  front.  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  Faculty,  the  Board  of  Trustees,  the  Law 
School,  the  different  classes,  and  visitors,  occupied  the 
raised  seats  of  the  temporary  platform  erected  behind.  The 
Ogdensburg  orchestra  was  in  attendance,  songs  appro- 
priate to  the  various  periods  treated  by  the  speakers  were 
sung  throughout  the  evening  by  the  college  glee  club,  the 
audience  joining  in  several  with  much  heartiness.  The  pro- 
gramme had  been  arranged  with  speakers  to  represent  suc- 
cessively the  five  decades  of  the  history  of  the  University, 
and  it  had  been  expected  that  the  speakers  would  tell  of  con- 
ditions at  the  college  as  they  were  in  their  time,  and  of  the 
incidents  that  go  to  make  up  the  legends  of  the  institution. 
While  this  was  done  to  a  slight  degree,  the  majority  of  the 


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speakers  took  broader  lines  for  their  themes.  But  it  is 
quite  impossible  to  do  justice  to  these  speeches  in  any 
report;  even  a  full  verbatim  record  would  not  give  the  real 
effect.  They  were  rather  informal  and  full  of  deep  feeling. 
The  very  sight  of  the  speakers  in  certain  cases — as  they 
came  forward  after  the  lapse  of  many  years,  bearing  the 
rich  honors  of  lives  well  spent  in  the  service  of  their  fel- 
lows, yet  as  full  of  loyalty  as  on  the  day  of  graduation — 
was  more  moving  than  any  words  that  could  be  uttered. 

After  the  prayer,  which  was  offered  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Richmond  Fisk,  President  of  the  College  of  Letters  and 
Science  from  1868  to  1872,  President  Gunnison  in  his 
opening  remarks  said  that  the  marking  off  of  fifty  years  in 
institutions  so  old  that  their  beginning  has  been  forgotten 
means  but  little,  but  that  the  passing  of  the  first  fifty  years 
of  St.  Lawrence  marks  an  epoch,  and  where  there  is  so 
much  to  show  from  so  small  and  primitive  a  beginning, 
there  is  just  cause  for  rejoicing. 

The  evening's  programme  then  began  with  the  reading 
of  a  beautiful  poem,  at  once  melodious  and  rich  in  senti- 
ment, composed  for  the  occasion  by  Irving  Bacheller,  '82. 
It  is  the  special  privilege  of  St.  Lawrence  to  claim  from 
her  most  gifted  son  services  such  as  this,  which  he  grants 
to  few,  but  to  his  Alma  Mater  he  has  never  yet  refused  the 
tribute  of  his  genius.  We  are  not  permitted  to  publish  the 
text  of  this  poem  in  the  present  issue,  as  we  had  hoped, 
but  it  will  appear  in  a  later  number  of  the  current  volume 
of  The  Laurentian.    The  title  chosen  was  <*The  Sowers." 

Rev.  Dr.  A.  B.  Hervey  was  the  speaker  for  the  first 
decade.  He  is  the  oldest  living  graduate,  having  graduated 
from  the  Theological  School  in  the  class  of  '61,  and  served 
as  President  of  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science  from 
i88g  to  1894.  spoke  for  the  sixties.    When  he  en- 

tered there  was  but  one  building  on  the  campus,  and  the 
campus  itself  was  a  waste  of  sand  and  boulders.  There 
were  no  trees.  No  section  of  the  State  more  needed  an 
institution  of  learning  than  did  this,  and  yet  it  came  here 
largely  by  chance.     At  the  time  of  Dr.  Hervey's  entrance 


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the  College  did  not  exist,  but  one  year  later  Dr.  J.  S.  Lee 
started  a  preparatory  school,  from  which  the  College  grew. 
The  speaker  spoke  in  glowing  terms  of  the  work  of  Dr. 
Fisher  and  Dr.  Gaines  as  the  men  to  whom,  more  than  to 
any  others,  the  University  owes  its  character;  their  sturdi- 
ness  and  devotion  and  unswerving  allegiance  to  the  right 
have  left  an  ineradicable  impress  upon  the  institution. 
They  put  into  it  their  lives,  which  have  become  its  tradi- 
tion, and  any  other  ideals  for  the  college  than  the  ideals 
they  builded  upon  will  be  found  false. 

Dr.  Annette  J.  Shaw  was  the  next  speaker.  She  was  of 
the  class  of  '73,  and  when  she  entered  college  the  real 
struggle  to  demonstrate  its  right  to  exist  had  begun.  It  was 
at  this  time  that  the  foundation  of  the  St.  Lawrence  spirit 
was  laid,  for  it  was  a  period  of  deprivation  and  sacrifice,  a 
time  when  the  students  and  the  men  who  taught  were 
brought  face  to  face  in  intimate  association.  She  spoke  of 
some  of  those  who  were  then  in  college.  Of  the  one  hun- 
dred persons  who  made  up  the  total  list  of  graduates  at 
that  date  fifteen  per  cent  are  now  dead.  Others  have  made 
names  for  themselves  in  different  callings.  The  boys  and 
girls  of  that  period  may  have  forgotten  many  things,  but 
there  is  one  thing  that  they  have  not  forgotten,  and  that  is 
loyalty,  purity,  and  truth.  It  was  in  the  seventies  that  the 
frater^nity  spirit  first  appeared,  which  resulted  in  the  for- 
mation of  the  P.  D.  society,  an  organization  whose  ways 
were  dark  and  regarded  with  deep  suspicion.  This  has 
become  the  local  chapter  of  Beta  Theta  Pi.  Among  the 
girls  the  Browning  society  was  forming,  which  a  few  years 
later  became  an  influential  chapter  of  Kappa  Kappa 
Gamma,  and  is  now  known  as  Zeta  Phi.  Like  all  the  old 
graduates,  the  speaker  referred  to  the  old  college  building 
around  which  so  many  memories  cluster,  and  while  she 
spoke  with  regret  of  the  fact  that  it  was  to  be  changed  and 
made  over  into  somethmg  new  and  modern,  she  was 
nevertheless  glad  that  it  was  to  be  done.  Old  scenes  must 
sometimes  be  wiped  out  in  order  to  meet  new  demands. 

When  the  Rev.  Richard  Eddy  Sykes  came  forward  to  speak 


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for  the  eighties  his  greeting  was  a  warm  one,  for  many  of 
those  who  sat  in  the  audience  knew  him  of  old — better,  how- 
ever, as  the  youthful  "Dick"  of  the  early  eighties  than 
under  his  present  titles,  soon  to  be  augmented.  He  said 
he  actually  entered  college  at  the  age  of  nine  years,  when 
his  father  came  to  the  institution  as  Steward.  Mr.  Sykes 
entered  the  class  of  '83,  and  noted  that  his  class  had  the 
first  cane-rush  ever  held  on  the  campus.  The  next  morn- 
ing all  persons  interested  in  the  matter  received  a  letter 
from  Dr.  Gaines,  and  they  had  a  heart-to-heart  talk.  It 
was  in  this  rush  that  Mr.  Sykes  wore  his  first  tall  hat,  an 
article  he  has  not  since  seen;  and  he  threw  in  the  informa- 
tion that  the  rush  was  organized  by  the  brother  of  the 
present  President — information  which  possibly  was  unneces- 
sary for  an  audience  reasonably  conversant  with  the  history 
and  proclivities  of  that  family.  Mr.  Sykes  told  of  the  first 
quartette  organized  in  the  college,  consisting  of  himself,  G. 
S.  Conkey,  Rev.  A.  B.  Church,  and  the  late  Professor 
Clement  M.  Baker,  which  toured  the  Thousand  Islands, — 
himself  and  Mr.  George  S.  Conkey,  now  Treasurer  of  the 
University,  passing  the  hat  on  the  boats.  During  his  term 
the  ball  team  v/as  organized,  and  the  only  athletic  appar- 
atus they  had  was  a  horizontal  bar  in  the  top  room  of  the 
college.  He  referred  to  the  erection  of  Fisher  Hall,  to  the 
former  presidents,  and  the  spirit  of  study,  loyalty,  and  sac- 
rifice manifested  by  all. 

Rev.  G.  E.  Cooley,  '97,  in  his  remarks  about  the  nine- 
ties said  that  it  was  at  that  time  that  the  idea  of  the  greater 
St.  Lawrence  sprang  into  being  at  a  meeting  in  New  York. 
It  saw  the  building  of  the  Gymnasium,  the  inauguration  of 
athletics  on  a  better  basis,  and  the  first  trips  to  meet  other 
teams.  It  was  during  his  time  that  St.  Lawrence  defeated 
Union  in  a  game  of  baseball,  the  first  victory  over  a  sister 
college. 

L.  H.  Pink  spoke  for  the  present.  He  paid  a  deserved 
compliment  to  Professor  Priest  in  his  remarks  about  the 
new  Science  Building.  He  said  that  it  has  always  been 
believed  that  Professor  Priest  could  make  a  steam  engine 


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out  of  a  hairpin,  and  that  heretofore  hairpins  had  been 
about  all  he  could  get  hold  of  to  work  with,  but  that  the 
new  hall  would  give  scope  for  his  recognized  genius,  and 
made  a  fitting  environment  at  last  for  such  a  man  as  he. 
Mr.  Pink  lamented  the  fact  that  so  many  saw  fit  to  think 
that  the  St.  Lawrence  spirit  was  on  the  wane  among  the 
3'ounger  graduates.  He  said  that  this  spirit  is  the  result  of 
years,  and  that  when  the  silver  is  appearing  in  the  hair  of 
the  present  graduates  the  true  spirit,  the  spirit  so  much 
talked  about  by  the  silver-grays  now,  will  be  found  fully  as 
strong.  He  further  said  that  in  years  to  come  Dr.  Gunni- 
son will  be  heralded  as  are  Dr.  Gaines  and  Dr.  Fisher  now, 
perhaps  not  for  the  same  things,  for  the  two  former  were 
pre-eminently  builders  in  spiritual  and  educational  things, 
while  Dr.  Gunnison  is  building  in  a  material  and  modern 
way,  and  is  doing  all  and  more  than  was  expected  of  him 
when  he  came  here.  He  has  founded  a  city  on  a  hill, 
which  will  not  be  hid. 

Dr.  Atwood  was  the  last  speaker  on  the  programme.  His 
theme  was  the  Past  and  Future.  His  reference  to  Dr. 
Gaines  and  Dr.  Fisher  will  be  long  remembered  by  all  who 
heard  it,  and  his  words  for  the  future  were  bright  and  hope- 
ful. He  also  drew  attention  to  the  noteworthy  fact  that 
no  fewer  than  four  of  the  five  speakers  representing  the 
successive  decades  stood  alike  for  the  Theological  School 
and  the  College,  three  of  them  being  graduates  of  both 
departments,  while  another  was  a  graduate  of  the  former 
and  an  ex-president  of  the  latter.  This,  he  truly  said,  was 
no  accident;  the  early  predominance  of  the  Theological 
School  is  a  fact  in  the  history  of  St.  Lawrence,  and  an  im- 
portant factor  in  its  growth.  This  brief  address  by  the 
honored  ex-president  of  the  Theological  School  formed  a 
fitting  climax  to  the  exercises  of  the  evening. 

At  the  close  Frank  J.  Arnold,  of  Brooklyn,  announced 
that  at  a  class  reunion  held  that  day,  his  class,  that  of 
1896,  had  voted  to  establish  a  class  scholarship,  and  that 
those  present,  comprising  about  half  the  members  of  the 
class,  had  already  subscribed  about  $600  toward  it. 


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COMMENCEMENT  EXERCISES  OF  THE  COLLEGE 
Wednesday,  the  culminating  day  of  the  commencement 
season,  was  so  perfect  in  all  its  conditions  that  frequent 
remarks  were  heard  on  the  advantage  of  having  the  Chief 
of  the  Weather  Bureau  in  personal  attendance.  No  im- 
provement could  have  been  made  if  he  had  telegraphed  to 
all  parts  of  the  country  for  the  best  weather  features, — the 
sunshine  of  the  south,  the  coolness  of  the  sea-shore,  and 
the  bracing  ozone  of  the  Adirondacks. 

The  graduation  exercises  of  the  College  of  Letters  and 
Science  were  conducted  in  the  Town  Hall,  beginning  at 
ten  o'clock.  The  audience  was  large  and  of  the  best  type; 
the  stage  was  decorated  in  the  same  manner  as  on  the 
evening  preceding,  except  that  the  pictures  had  been  re- 
moved from  the  front.  A  good  orchestra  was  in  attend- 
ance, and  as  the  march  was  sounded  the  usual  procession, 
consisting  of  the  Faculty  of  the  University  (all  three  de- 
partments being  represented),  the  Trustees,  the  guests  of 
honor,  and  the  candidates  for  degrees,  all  in  full  academic 
costume,  entered  the  hall  and  defiled  to  the  stage.  Presi- 
dent A.  B.  Church,  of  Buchtel  College,  (S.  L.  U.  '86) 
offered  prayer. 

Of  the  five  speakers  who  had  been  selected  from  the 
graduating  class  to  deliver  theses,  the  first  was  Miss 
Anne  Gertrude  Sneller,  of  Cicero,  who  had  chosen  as  her 
subject  "The  True  Significance  of  Education."  Her 
oration  was  admirably  delivered,  and  was  accounted  one 
of  the  very  best  on  the  programme.  Miss  Sneller  has 
proved  herself  a  student  of  altogether  exceptional  ability, 
and  has  made  an  enviable  record  in  her  college  work — and 
this  was  attested  by  the  fact  that  her  degree  was  conferred 
suMMA  CUM  LAUDE,  an  houor  very  rarely  granted  at  St. 
Lawrence. 

The  second  speaker  was  Linn  Rudolph  Blanchard,  of 
Woodstock,  Vt.,  whose  topic  was  "The  Ghost  in  Litera- 
ture". The  theme  was  novel,  and  the  treatment  showed 
unusual  literary  insight  and  wide  reading.  The  matter 
was  handled  with  considerable  skill,  and  in  the  vigorous 


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originality  of  its  thought  this  oration  was  undoubtedly  the 
most  remarkable  of  the  series. 

After  music  by  the  orchestra,  Miss  Fanny  Louise  Atwater, 
of  Norfolk,  delivered  a  thesis  entitled  "Pestalozzi  as  an 
Educational  Reformer."  The  subject  was  full  of  interest, 
and  the  rendering  characterized  by  grace  of  expression  and 
quiet  dignity  of  manner. 

Mr.  Clarence  Everett  Barter,  of  Canton,  then  dealt  with 
"The  Problem  of  Pure  Food."  Mr.  Barter  makes  little 
pretense  to  oratory,  but  his  mode  of  speaking  was  plain 
and  effective,  and  his  thorough  knowledge  of  the  subject 
he  had  chosen  was  manifest.  Mr.  Barter  during  the  past 
year  served  as  first  assistant  in  the  laboratory,  and  in  what 
he  said  of  adulterants  he  spoke  in  part  from  his  own  analysis 
of  samples. 

The  last  thesis  was  on  "Sanity  in  Physical  Training", 
by  Sarah  Farnsworth  Stebbins,  of  Brooklyn.  Common 
sense  in  athletics  was  strongly  advocated,  and  especial 
stress  v/as  laid  on  the  point  that  to-day  physical  training 
in  American  colleges  is  at  the  same  time  carried  to  excess 
and  seriously  neglected.  Miss  Stebbins  has  unusual  skill 
in  speaking,  and  no  oration  was  more  effectively  rendered 
than  this. 

The  closing  thesis  was  followed  by  music.  The  class, 
thirty-five  in  number,  then  rose  in  their  places,  and  President 
Gunnison  briefly  addressed  them  with  parting  words  of 
good  council  and  affection.  Degrees  in  course  were  then 
conferred  in  the  usual  manner  upon  the  following  candi- 
dates: 

The  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  upon  Edith  Louisa 
Adams,  George  Carl  Alverson,  Fann}'  Louise  Atwater, 
MAGNA  CUM  LAUDE,  Linn  Rudolph  Blanchard,  magna  cum 
LAUDE,  Frank  Henry  Cook,  Freeman  Ralph  Crane,  Fletcher 
Donaghue  Dodge,  Nellie  Mae  Farmer,  Etta  Evelyn 
Fraser,  cum  laude,  Jean  Elizabeth  Glassford,  cum  laude, 
Bessie  Cummings  Greene,  Bessie  Alexander  Hart,  Fred 
Harold  Heaton,  Marion  Culver  Hodskin,  Agnes  Melvina 
Hosley,  Sarah  Emma  Hulett,  Inez  Marie  Northrop,  Ethol 


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Eva  Peck,  Obed  Edwin  Risley,  Anne  Gertrude  Sneller, 
SUMMA  CUM  LAUDE,  Grace  Frances  Storrs,  Stephen  Clayton 
Sumner,  Arthur  Townsend  Walker,  Clark  Jay  Willson. 

The  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science,  upon  Robert  Lee 
Allen,  Jeremiah  Leland  Ames,  Clarence  Everett  Barter, 
CUM  LAUDE,  William  Henry  Hayden,  Elbridge  Omar  Hurl- 
but,  jr.,  DeWitt  Thornton  Kilian,  Delbert  Robert  Lewis, 
Earl  Babcock  Scott,  Sarah  Farnsworth  Stebbins,  Leland 
James  Whittaker,  Leo  Frank  Willson. 

The  degree  of  Master  of  Science,  for  work  done  in 
biology,  upon  Irma  Hale,  B.S.  1903;  Thesis — **A  De- 
scription of  Some  Pathogenic  Bacteria." 

The  degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  for  work  done  in  history, 
upon  Evelyn  Wells,  B.A.  1905;  Thesis — ''Intimations  of 
Free  Agency  in  History." 

The  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  in  absentia 
upon  James  Franklin  Morgan,  B.A.  1903,  for  work  done  in 
chemistry. 

The  President  then  called  upon  the  Recorder,  Professor 
Ford,  to  present  those  who  were  to  receive  honorary  de- 
grees, which  were  conferred  by  President  Gunnison  in  the 
following  words: 

"Edward  Lawrence  Stevens,  teacher  and  superintendent 
of  teachers,  native  of  this  northern  country,  skilled  in  the 
arts  of  instruction,  wise  in  direction,  by  the  united  vote  of 
the  Faculty  and  Trustees  of  St.  Lawrence  University  I  am 
instructed  to  confer  upon  you  the  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Humane  Letters.* 

"Willis  L.  Moore,  scientist  of  celebrity,  master  of  the 
mysteries  of  air  and  climate,  interpreter  of  the  laws  of  the 
wind  and  the  waves,  making  nature  man's  servant  by  be- 
coming master  of  her  secrets,  to  the  degrees  which  you 

♦The  Latin  of  the  diplomas  read  as  follows,  respectively: 

Eduardum  Laurentium  Stevens,  virura  doctura,  ingenio 
doctrina  auctoritate  ornatura,  raagistrum  prudentem  sollertem 
strenuum,  curae  liberorum  instruendorum  in  urbe  Neo-Eboracensi 
praepositura,  Litteraruni  Humafiarunt'  Doctorem — 

WiLLrs  LuTHERUM  MooRE,  virum  caelo  publice  observando 
praepositura,  scientiae  venti  tempestatisque  studiosum,  cui  cognos- 


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already  hold  this  University  adds  the  honorary  degree  of 
DocroR  OF  Science."* 

"Charles  Hayden,  preacher  of  righteousness,  graced 
with  culture  and  gifted  with  the  art  of  inspiring  speech, 
accept  from  the  University  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor 
OF  Divinity."* 

Richard  Eddy  Sykes,  graduate  of  two  departments  of 
St.  Lawrence  University,  pastor  and  preacher,  excelling 
in  Christian  administrations  and  charities,  you  are  honored 
by  this  institution,  which  you  have  honored,  with  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity."* 

William  Beers  Hurd,  jr.,  learned  in  the  law,  eminent  as 
a  jurist,  leader  in  civic  and  legal  circles,  skilled  in  affairs 
and  graced  with  the  scholar's  culture,  the  University  which 
you  have  served  as  a  successful  lecturer  and  zealous  friend 
in  its  Law  Department  confers  upon  you  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws."* 

**John  Stocker  Miller,  once  a  faithful  student  and  able 
teacher  in  this  University,  now  an  eminent  advocate,  wise 
counselor,  and  great  lawyer  in  a  great  city,  your  Alma 
Mater  honors  herself  by  honoring  you  with  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws."* 

cere  palamque  facere  res  multas  et  omnium  vitae  civium  utilissimas 
est  curae,  Scientiae  Doctorem— 

Carolum  Adelbert  Hayden,  virum  reverendum,  oratorem  in 
rebus  divinis  eloquentem,  pastorem  fidelem,  omnium  rerum  pro 
communi  saluti  gestarum  studiosum  et  fautorem,  Divinitatis 
Doctorem— 

RiCARDUM  Eddy  Sykes,  alumnum  Universitatis  nostrae,  et  in 
scientia  et  in  theologia  bacalaureatum,  virum  sanctitate  veneratum, 
comitate  dilectum,  doctrina  et  eloquentia  honoratum,  Divinitatis 
Doctorem— 

GuLiELMUM  Beers  Hurd,  Jr.,  apud  Scholam  Legum  nostram 
praelectorem,  virum  in  causis  agendis  disertum,  in  iure  civili  pru- 
dentem,  iuridicum  integrum,  olim  iudicio  amplo  praesidentem, 
Legum  Doctorem — 

JoHANNEM  Stocker  Miller,  exeraplum  indolis,  artibus  liberal- 
ibus  excultae  atque  politae,  olim  apud  hancUniversitatem  linguarum 
antiquarum  professorem,  iuris  consultum  peritissimum,  fama  cuius 
per  totam  rem  publicam  cluetur,  Legum  Doctorem — 
honoris  causa  creavimus  et  renuntiavimus . 


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"Newton  Martin  Curtis,  patriot,  soldier,  general  in  the 
Civil  War,  not  less  distinguished  on  the  battle  field  than 
for  faithful  service  in  the  arts  of  peace,  author,  legislator, 
citizen,  a  faithful  friend  of  education  and  all  honorable 
causes,  the  University  which  you  have  served  from  its 
foundation  is  happy  in  conferring  upon  you  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws."* 

"Alonzo  Barton  Hepburn,  honored  of  all  men,  but 
honored  most  by  those  who  know  you  best,  serving  state 
and  nation  in  important  posts  and  always  with  fidelity  and 
distinction,  author  of  celebrity,  master  of  the  philosophy 
and  administration  of  finance,  appreciative  of  learning 
and  its  institutions,  generous  patron  and  friend,  St.  Law- 
rence University  with  great  pleasure  confers  upon  you 
its  highest  degree.  Doctor  of  Civil  Law."* 

Honorary  degrees  were  conferred  in  absentia  as  follows: 
Upon  Don  Seitz,  of  New  York,  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts."* 

Upon  Frederick  William  Hamilton,  President  of  Tufts 
College,  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.* 

So  ended  the  very  successful  exercises  of  the  morning. 

*The  Latin  of  the  diplomas  read  as  follows,  respectively: 
Newton  Martinum  Curtis,  ducem  in  Bello  Civili  animosum, 
nec   minus   in   foro  quam  in  armis  illustrem,  poenae  capitalis 
abolendae  suasorem  praecipuum,  rerura  a  commilitonibus  actarum 
scriptorem  luculentum,  Legum  Doctoreni — 

Alonzo  Barton  Hepburn,  horainem  officii  amplissimi  onere 
sagaciter  fungentem,  inter  eos  qui  negotia  agunt  cum  laude 
eminentem,  nummorum  ex  auri  pretio  aestimandorum  auctorem 
gravissimura,  Legis  Civilis  Doctoreni— 

Don  Carlos  Seitz,  horainem  in  urbis  magnae  negotiis  operosi- 
oribus  strenue  versatum,  alumni  nostri  filium,  Universitati  consuleu- 
tem,  quo  ipse  in  familiam  nomenque  adoptatus  sit,  Artiuni  Magis- 
trum — 

Fridericum  Gulielmum  Hamilton,  Collegii  Tuftensis  praesi- 
dem    designatum,  virum    eruditum,  administratorem  sagacem, 
munera  ita  obiturum  ut  lumen  scientiae  baud  minus  in  illo  doc- 
trinae  domicilio  eluceat,  Le^rum  Doctoreni— 
honoris  causa  creavimus  et  renuntiavimus . 


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THE  ALUMNI  COLLATION 

For  many  years  the  afternoon  following  the  graduation 
exercises  has  been  devoted  to  the  Alunmi  Dinner;  but  on 
this  occasion  there  was,  strictly  speaking,  no  dinner.  It 
was  found  impossible  to  provide  adequately  in  the  usual 
way  for  the  number  likely  to  attend — no  hotel  in  Canton 
was  large  enough.  This,  therefore,  was  not  attempted; 
instead,  a  cold  collation  was  served  in  the  Gymnasium,  fol- 
lowed by  the  customary  toasts  and  singing.  Even  so  the 
great  hall  was  filled  almost  to  the  limit  of  comfort,  and 
apart  from  the  somewhat  unsatisfactory  service — which  was 
not  the  fault  of  the  committee  in  charge — the  innovation 
was  generally  commended. 

The  luncheon  was  served  at  two  o'clock,  and  the  literary 
part  of  the  programme,  always  the  main  feature,  was  soon 
reached.  Rev.  Dr.  George  L.  Perin,  of  Boston,  was  intro- 
duced as  toast-master  and  discharged  his  office  with  char- 
acteristic touches  of  humor.  He  began,  however,  in  a 
more  serious  vein,  saying  that  the  St.  Lawrence  of  to-day 
is  facing  the  sunrise,  and  he  hoped  that  the  toasts  would 
represent  the  spirit  of  the  occasion. 

The  first  speaker  called  upon  was  General  Curtis.  He  was 
introduced  as  the  hero  of  Fort  Fisher — a  man  who,  both 
in  his  private  and  public  life,  had  been  an  honor  to  his 
country,  and  although  not  a  graduate,  a  good  friend  of  the 
college  from  its  foundation.  General  Curtis  first  thanked  the 
University  for  the  act  which  had  made  him  an  alumnus  of 
the  institution  which  had  always  been  so  near  his  heart. 
He  then  spoke  of  his  memory  of  the  ceremony  of  the  laying 
of  the  corner  stone  of  Richardson  Hall.  He  especially 
recalled  the  work  of  George  Robinson,  late  Treasurer  of 
the  University,  who  drove  from  house  to  house  raising  sub- 
scriptions to  found  the  college.  He  spoke  of  the  day 
when,  driving  to  Canton  early  in  the  morning,  he  listened 
to  the  address  of  Dr.  Chapin,  which  he  characterized  as 
one  of  the  finest  that  he  had  ever  heard.  He  then  com- 
pared the  University  as  he  saw  it  in  its  infancy  and  as  it 
now  appears,  and  said  that  its  rapid  growth  was  largely  the 


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result  of  the  superb  management  of  President  Gunnison, 
whose  best  reward  is  that  of  a  great  work  well  done. 

Hon.  A.  B.  Hepburn,  President  of  the  Chase  National 
Bank,  of  New  York,  added  his  tribute  to  President  Gunni- 
son, and  thanked  the  University  for  the  honor  conferred 
upon  him.  His  response  was  characteristically  brief,  ade- 
quate, and  to  the  point. 

Rev.  Dr.  Hayden,  of  Agusta,  Me. ,  after  the  usual  expres- 
sion of  acknowledgment,  said  that  in  his  State  St.  Lawrence 
is  well  known  through  her  graduates,  who  are  all  examples 
of  the  best  type  of  the  college-bred  man.  The  State  has, 
however,  pa,rtially  repaid  its  debt  in  the  instructors  which 
it  has  sent  to  Canton. 

Mr.  John  Hinds,  T.  S.  '72,  of  Boston,  is  well  known  even 
to  the  undergraduates  as  a  generous  friend  of  St.  Law- 
rence. When  called  upon  he  began  by  saying  that  the 
prime  requisite  in  a  college  president  is  that  he  be  a  good 
beggar;  he  had  known  President  Gunnison  for  years,  and 
could  testify  that  he  is  the  prince  of  beggars.  His  response 
was  the  most  entertaining  of  the  day,  a  model  of  dry,  quaint 
humor,  with  touches  of  deeper  feeling;  it  is  quite  impossi- 
ble to  do  it  justice  from  the  notes  of  a  hasty  report. 

Miss  Stebbins,  '06,  was  called  upon  as  a  representative 
of  the  graduating  class.  Her  response  was  brief,  but  apt 
and  very  graceful,  expressing  in  part  her  appreciation  of 
the  loyal  services  of  that  great  body  of  St.  Lawrence  alumni 
among  whom  she  is  now  enrolled. 

She  was  followed  by  Mr.  D.  J.  Flanders,  general  passen- 
ger agent  of  the  Boston  and  Maine  railroad,  who  had  come 
to  Canton  to  attend  commencement  with  his  pastor, 
Rev.  R.  E.  Sykes.  His  words  were  listened  to  with  especial 
interest,  as  he  spoke  of  the  University  from  the  standpoint 
of  a  successful  business  man.  He  said  that  although  he  is 
not  himself  a  college  graduate  he  fully  appreciates  the  value 
of  a  university  education.  He  spoke  of  the  excellent  work 
of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Sykes,  his  pastor,  and  added  that,  through 
its  graduates,  all  of  whom  are  highly  respected,  the  Uni- 
versity is  becoming  well  known  in  New  England. 


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Dr.  Sarah  E.  Sprague,  '66,  of  Chicago,  was  next  called 
upon.  Her  toast  was  largely  reminiscent.  When  she 
entered  there  was  but  one  building  on  the  hill,  and  her 
class,  consisting  of  two  girls,  was  the  first  to  receive 
diplomas  from  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science.  The 
entire  Faculty  consisted  of  three  men,  Professors  Fisher, 
Lee,  and  Clapp.  Each  was  a  distinguished  character. 
Dr.  Fisher  was  undoubtedly  the  most  revered  and  Dr.  Lee 
the  most  loved  man  in  the  county.  Professor  Clapp  is  the 
only  survivor  now.  She  then  spoke  at  some  length  of  life 
in  the  old  college  building. 

Mr.  Ogden  Fethers,  of  Janesville,  Wis.,  began  by 
remarking  that  while  the  others  had  told  of  the  gifts  to  the 
University  he  wished  to  enter  a  plea  for  the  under  dog — 
and  that  he  had  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  man  who 
has  the  dollar  gets  it  in  the  neck.  He  then  extolled  the 
work  of  the  University;  it  sends  forth  the  kind  of  men 
and  women  who  are  needed  in  the  world. 

The  last  speaker  was  the  Rev.  Dr.  R.  E.  Sykes,  '85,  who 
added  his  voice  to  that  of  the  others  in  praise  of  the  work 
of  the  University  and  the  notable  success  of  the  present 
administration. 

At  the  close  of  his  remarks  the  toast-master  read  the  fol- 
lowing memorial,  which  had  been  signed  by  something 
over  a  hnndred  of  the  alumni  present: 

In  reviewing  the  history  of  our  beloved  University,  which  in 
recent  years  has  been  making  a  marked  advance  in  its  standing,  in- 
fluence, and  extent  of  usefulness,  the  minds  of  the  alumni  naturally 
have  turned  in  affectionate  regard  toward  its  honored  President, 
through  whose  instrumentality  this  has  been  accomplished. 

Called  to  the  presidency  in  the  prime  of  life  from  a  congenial, 
prosperous,  and  successful  pastorate,  Dr.  Gunnison  responded  to 
our  summons,  believing,  as  he  was  urgently  assured,  that  here  a 
wider  sphere  for  service — and  must  we  not  add,  sacrifice? — opened 
before  him. 

That  the  result  of  his  years  of  labor  for  St.  Lawrence  has  justi- 
fied that  assurance  and  his  belief,  needs  no  verification  from  us.  It 
is  evidenced  at  the  seat  of  the  University  itself;  in  the  liberal  bene- 
factions secured  through  his  efforts;  in  its  recognition  by  the  State 
and  the  granting  of  a  liberal  appropriation  to  its  coming  School 
of  Agriculture;  by  the  absorption  of  the  Brooklyn  Law  School;  by 


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the  increased  number  of  students,  and  by  the  development  of  its 
graduates  and  increasing  strength  of  its  alumni;  all  these,  and 
more  testify  to  the  good  work  of  our  President,  who  thus  has  raised 
the  institution  from  practically  a  small  country  school  to  one  of  the 
leading  universities  of  the  State. 

It  is  not  for  us  here  now,  or  at  any  other  time,  to  reward  him 
for  his  labors  of  love;  for  the  gift  of  himself  through  the  varied 
duties  of  his  high  office,  in  fulfilling  which  he  has  not  counted  his 
life  dear.  We  cannot  reward  him,  though  gladly  would  we  do  so, 
with  gold  and  happiness.  The  reward  may  not  be  offered  by 
earthly  hands. 

But  we  can  express  and  do  here  beg  the  privilege  of  again  re- 
peating to  him — our  honored  President — the  homage  of  our  love 
and  the  assurance  of  our  deepest  appreciation  of  his  service  and 
self-sacrifice;  of  our  own  obligation  and  that  of  all  its  alumni  and 
students  and  friends  for  the  measure  of  success  attained  by  the 
institution,  and  for  our  own  growth  in  all  the  elements  of  a  worthy 
manhood  and  womanhood. 

That  Dr.  Gunnison  may  long  be  spared  to  the  University  and 
the  world  is  the  earnest  wish  and  hope  of  us  all,  as  it  is  also  that  of 
the  entire  constituency  of  St.  Lawrence  University. 

This,  it  was  assumed,  was  tlie  end;  but  just  as  the  audi- 
ence was  about  to  rise  Dr.  Perin  stated  that  Mr.  Irving 
Bacheller,  '82,  wished  to  make  an  announcement.  Mr. 
Bacheller  then  came  forward  smiling,  and  in  apt  words 
presented  President  Gunnison  with  a  purse  of  six  hundred 
dollars  in  gold  as  a  token  of  esteem  from  a  few  of  the 
alumni  present.  President  Gunnison  responded  that  he 
was  overwhelmed  by  so  unexpected  a  gift,  and  at  the  same 
time  felt  no  small  annoyance  that  so  much  money  had  been 
in  the  possession  of  persons  desiring  to  get  rid  of  it  with- 
out his  knowledge.  He  heartily  thanked  those  who  had 
made  up  the  purse  and  said  that  if  it  was  tlieir  intention 
that  he  should  **blo\v"  it  he  would  try  to  meet  tlieir  wishes. 
With  this  pleasant  incident  the  exercises  of  the  afternoon 
were  brought  to  a  close. 

THE  JUNIOR  PROMENADE 

The  closing  event  of  commencement  week,  however,  was 
the  Junior  Promenade  in  the  evening.  This  also  was  lield 
in  the  Gymnasium,  the  reception  beginning  at  eight  o'clock. 
The  committee  in  charge  consisted  of  Messrs.  Quacken- 
Inisli,  VanDelinder,  W.  C.  Priest,  and  East,  and  Misses  Ruth 


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Kimball,  Ackerman,  and  Mannix.  The  music  was  furi 
nished  by  the  Ogdensburg  Opera  House  Orchestra.  The 
hall  was  tastefully  decorated,  and  thronged  with  alumn- 
and  students.  The  roof-beams  were  entirely  hidden  by  a 
wide  awning  of  scarlet  and  brown,  the  balcony  was  banked 
in  with  evergreen,  and  hundreds  of  college  and  fraternity 
pennants  covered  the  walls.  The  evening  was  cool  and 
delightful,  and  the  dancing  was  greatly  enjoyed  and  con- 
tinued until  a  late  hour. 

So  ended  the  semi-centennial  anniversary  of  the  found- 
ing of  St.  Lawrence.  Does  it  seem  too  fanciful  to  note  that 
it  closed  as  the  dawn  was  breaking — as  the  last  of  the 
dancers  hastened  home  to  their  rest?  For  the  first  decades 
of  St.  Lawrence  were  passed  in  the  night,  under  the 
shadows  of  deep  obscurity;  and  many  who  danced  through 
those  night  watches — and  they  paid  the  piper,  too — are 
weary  now  and  hastening  to  their  rest,  and  already  some 
are  sleeping.  But  over  St.  Lawrence  the  dawn  is  break- 
ing— such,  at  least,  is  our  hope. 

THE  ATTENDANCE 

A  partial  list  of  the  alumni  and  guests  present  during 
commencement  is  as  follows: 

A.  G.  Aiken,  '01,  Lisbon;  Miss  E.  R.  Albers,  '05,  Carthage;  C. 
H.  Alexander,  '04,  New  York;  Rev.  A.  E.  Allison,  '03,  Ogdens- 
burg; Mr.  Alverson,  Dexter;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Ames,  Morris- 
town;  Horace  Atwater,  Norfolk;  Dr.  and  Mrs.  I.  M.  Atwood,  and 
Miss  Alice  Atwood,  Rochester;  Prof.  J.  M.  Atwood,  Canton;  C.  A. 
Austin,  Bethlehem,  Pa.;  C.  R.  Austin,  '05,  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.;  Miss 
Madge  Austin,  '00,  Canton;  Irving  Bacheller,  '82,  and  wife,  Sound 
Beach,  Conn.;  Rev.  F.  W.  Bailey,  '78,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
H.  B.  Bailey,  '05,  Woodbury,  N.  J.;  C.  A.  Baltz,  '04,  New  York; 
Rev.  G.  E.  Baner,  '99,  Geneva;  R.  L.  Barber,  '02,  Newark,  N.  J.; 
Dr.  J.  N.  Bassett,  '78,  Canton;  Mrs.  L.  L.  Bedell,  '82,  New 
York;  Mrs.  S.  W.  Benton,  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  Miss  Mabel 
Black,  '05,  Brooklyn;  C.  S.  Brewer,  '91,  Herkimer;  R.  E. 
Briggs,  '05,  Lima;  Mrs.  Bullock,  Worcester,  Mass.;  Everett 
Caldwell,  '89,  Brooklyn;  M.  J,  Casey,  '87,  Chicago;  Hon. 
Worth  Chamberlain,  '70,  and  wife,  Albany;  Mrs.  J.  E. 
Cheetham,  '86,  Canton;  J.  H.  Christie,  '93,  Bayonne,  N.  J.;  Rev. 
A.  B.  Church,  '86,  and  Mrs.  Church,  '86,  Akron,  Ohio;  F.  N. 
Cleaveland,  '77,  Canton;  Wm.  Coates,  Jr.,  '05,  Ogdensburg;  Dr. 


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E.  M.  Cole,  '84,  Dekalb  Junction;  Miss  E.  E.  Conant,  '02,  Ogdens- 
burg;  G.  S.  Conkey,  '83,  Canton;  H.  M.  Conkey,  '99,  New  York; 
Rev.  Chas.  Conklin,  '76,  Boston;  Rev.  G.  E.  Cooley,  '97,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.;  Rev.  J.  D.  Corby,  '86,  Londonderry,  Vt.;  Miss 
Grace  Corwin,  Gouverneur;  Rev.  E.  M.  Crandall,  '92,  Madrid;  Mrs. 

B.  Cunningham,  '93,  Canton;  Gen.  N.  M.  Curtis,  Ogdensburg; 
H.  H.  Dewey,  '04,  and  Mrs.  Dewey,  '04,  Lawrenceville;  Miss  E.  L. 
Dies,  '03,  Rensselaer  Falls;  Prof,  and  Mrs.  O.  W.  Dodge,  Ogdens- 
burg; J.  C.  Dolan,  '96,  Gouverneur;  G.  C.  Dona,  '04,  Massena; 
Dr.  M.  E.  Doolittle,  '75,  Hawarden,  la.;  R.  E.  Doolittle,  '75,  New 
York;  T.  P.  Dunphy,  '05,  New  York;  E.  D.  Duryea,  '04,  New 
York;  Mrs.  G.  Elliott,  '03,  Roxbury,  Mass.;  Wm.  A.  Elliott,  '94, 
Brooklyn;  F.  H.  Emerson,  '02,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  C.  A.  Farmer, 
'04,  Canton;  H.  G.  Farmer,  '04,  New  York;  Dr.  G.  S.  Farmer,  '71, 
Watertown;  C.  S.  Ferris,  '88,  Potsdam;  Hon.  Ogden  Fethers,  Janes- 
ville.  Wis.;  A.  J.  Fields,  '00,  Winthrop;  J.  A.  Finnigan,  '93,  Can- 
ton; Dr.  Richmond  Fiske,  Boston;  Prof.  H.  P.  Forbes,  '73,  Canton; 
M.  G,.  Folsom,  '05,  Clifton  Springs;  Prof.  R.  D.  Ford,  '85,  Canton; 
Mr.  Eraser,  Fort  Covington;  G.  T.  Flanders,  Boston,  Mass.;  Prof. 

C.  K.  Gaines,  '76,  and  Mrs.  Gaines,  '78,  Canton;  B.  Gilday,  '05, 
Little  Falls;  Mr.  Glassford,  Jersey  City,  N.  J.;  Dr.  Almon  Gunni- 
son, '68,  Canton;  Dr.  W.  B.  Gunnison,  '75,  Brooklyn;  S.  E.  Gunnison, 
'99,  Brooklyn;  Miss  Irma  Hale,  '03,  Canton;  Hon.  L.  P.  Hale,  '76, 
Canton;  Mrs.  Jessie  Hammond,  '89,  Canton;  Prof.  G.  R.  Hardie,  '90, 
and  Mrs.  Hardie,  '97,  Canton;  Rev.  M.  H.  Harris,  '70,  and  Mrs. 
Harris,  '67,  Watertown;  Mrs.  Kate  Hart,  Little  Falls;  Mrs.  C.  W. 
Hartridge.  New  York;  J.  B.  Hawley,  '02,  Cincinnati,  O.;  Dr. 
Wm.  Hayden,  Augusta,  Me.;  J.  P.  Heath,  '06,  Potsdam;  Dr.  Lucia 
E.  Heaton,  '79,  Canton;  C.  F.  Heckles,  '98,  Canton;  W.  J. 
Heckles,  '96,  Canton;  G.  B.  Helmle,  '85,  Nyack;  C.  E.  Hemen- 
way,  '00,  Canton;  Hon.  A.  B.  Hepburn,  and  Mrs.  Hepburn, 
'86,  New  York;  Dr.  A.  B.  Hervey,  '61,  Bath,  Me.;  Rev.  J.  W. 
Hinds,  '72,  Boston,  Mass;  Mrs.  G.  E.  Hoage,  '93,  Canton;  Rev.  R. 
E.  Horn,  '95,  Canton;  Prof.  E.  L.  Hulett,  '03,  and  Mrs.  Hulett, 
Canton;  Rev.  G.  E.  Huntley,  '94,  Canton;  Mrs.  E.  M.  Hurlbut, 
'78,  Canton;  Mrs.  A.  E.  Hurley,  '91,  Phoenix,  Arizona;  Dr.  W.  B. 
Hurd,  jr.,  Brooklyn;  Miss  Mary  Ives,  '05,  Brushton;  L.  A.  Johnson, 
'96,  Canton;  D.  S.  Judd,  '03,  Canton;  Miss  Amy  Kelly,  '04, 
Heuvelton;  Miss  Hazel  Kelley,  '04,  Potsdam;  Hon.  A.  E.  Kilby, 
'69,  Carthage;  Miss  Adeline  Koster,  '05,  Malone;  Mrs.  A.  L. 
Ladd,  '95,  Canton;  D.  F.  Lane,  '03,  Watertown;  Mrs.  W.  R. 
Lasher,  Brooklyn;  W.  J.  Litchfield,  '94,  Boston,  Mass.;  Miss 
Josephine  Lewis,  ex-'05.  Orange,  N.  J.;  J.  G.  Logan,  '95,  Brooklyn; 
Mrs.  F.  M.  Lynch,  '96,  Tuckahoe;  Miss  A.  L.  Lyon,  '99,  Brook- 
lyn; C.  B.  McCormick,  '96,  and  H.  McCormick,  '98,  Watertown; 
Mrs.  E.  T.  McDonald,  '85,  Ogdensburg;    Hon.  Geo.  R.  Malby  and 


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Mrs.  Malby,  Ogdensburg;  Williston  Manley,  '88,  and  Mrs.  Manley, 
ex-'89,  Canton;  Mrs.  Abbie  Martin,  '75,  Canton;  Miss  L.  H. 
Merriman,  '96,  Canton;  Gen.  E.  A.  Merritt,  and  wife,  Potsdam; 
Hon.  E.  A.  Merritt,  jr.,  and  wife,  Potsdam;  Miss  J.  F.  Merritt, 
'89,  Crar}'-  Mills;  Edmund  Millen,  Middletown;  Miss  Gladys  Millen, 
ex-'07,  Middletown;  Hon.  J.  S.  Miller,  '69,  Chicago,  111.;  Miss 
Mills,  Andover,  Mass.;  Miss  K.  E.  Moog,  '96,  Baltimore,  Md,; 
Hon.  Willis  L.  Moore,  Washington,  D.  C;  Rev.  H.  P.  Morrell, 
'91,  Buffalo;  L.  Moses,  'OS,  Richville;  Miss  N.  L.  Mowitt,  '05, 
Massena;  E.  J.  Mulholland,  '01,  Piercefield;  Rev.  George  L. 
Murray,  '90,  Copenhagen;  Miss  M,  J.  Murray,  '95,  Ticonder- 
oga;  Dr.  W.  H.  Nickelson,  '79,  Adams;  Miss  Helen  Noel,  Balti- 
more, Md.;  Dr.  C.  A.  Northrop,  '77,  Hermon;  B.  S.  O'Neil, 
'92,  and  Mrs.  O'Neil,  '93,  Massena;  John  O'Leary,  '88,  Clayton; 
George  H.  Partridge,  '96,  New  York;  Dr.  J.  M.  Payson,  '74,  Can- 
ton; Mrs,  Patterson,  Towanda,  Pa.;  Mr.  Peck,  Brushton;  Miss  G. 
E.  Perkins,  '03,  Park  Rapids,  Minn.;  Miss  K.  F.  Perkins,  '00, 
Halleck,  Minn.;  Miss  M,  A.  Perkins,  '01,  Park  Rapids,  Minn.;  Dr. 
G.  L.  Perin,  '78,  Boston,  Mass.;  Mr.  Phelps  and  Mrs.  Phelps, 
'04,  Brushton;  Miss  Ida  Phelps,  '85,  Walpole,  Mass.;  Miss  Helen 
Pierce,  '03,  Watertown;  L.  H.  Pink,  '04,  New  York;  Miss  Alice 
Poste,  '03,  Mexico  City,  Mexico;  Ellsworth  Poste,  '01,  Herkimer; 
Mrs.  Richardson,  Worcester,  Mass.;  Dr.  W.  P.  Richardson,  Brook- 
lyn; H.  D.  Robinson,  '86,  New  York;  N.  L.  Robinson,  '77,  New 
York;  Miss  Ethel  Robinson,  '05,  Canton;  Miss  Sarah  Robinson,  '05, 
Brushton;  Mrs.  Roche,  St.  Johnsville;  Miss  Z.  M.  Rowland,  '97, 
Canton;  J.  H.  Rushton,  '04,  Canton;  Miss  Sadler,  Syracuse;  Rev. 
E.  B.  Saunders,  '04,  Fitchburg,  Mass.;  Mrs.  C.  D.  Sawyer,  '82, 
Canton;  L.  C.  Sawyer,  '81,  Ogdensburg;  Mrs.  F.  M.  Schultz, 
Sound  Beach,  Conn.;  Miss  Helen  Schultz,  Sound  Beach,  Conn.; 
Miss  Mildred  Schultz,  Sound  Beach,  Conn.;  Dr.  Annette  J.  Shaw, 
'73,  Eau  Claire,  Wis.;  C.  F.  Sheldon,  '03,  Sherman;  Mrs.  G.  E. 
Sims,  '85,  Canton;  Mrs.  Jacob  Sneller,  Cicero;  Rear  Admiral 
Smith,  U.  S.  N.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Miss  Florence  Spaulsbury, 
Gouverneur;  Miss  Esther  Spencer,  '03,  Watertown;  Dr.  Sarah  E. 
Sprague,  Chicago,  111.;  A.  Z.  Squires,  '68,  Canton;  J.  D,  Stark, 
'01,  Titusville,  Pa. ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Channing  Stebbins  and  Miss  Delia 
Stebbins,  Brooklyn;  Dr.  E.  L.  Stevens,  New  York;  B.  S.  Stevens, 
'99,  Canton;  Miss  Annie  Stevenson,  Canton;  C.  P.  Stiles,  '00, 
Dekalb;  Miss  J.  V.  Stiles,  '90,  Dekalb;  Mrs.  R.  M.  Stocking, 
Quebec,  P.  Q.;  Dr.  C.  O.  Sumner,  '90,  Norwood;  Miss  C.  L.  Sum- 
ner, '98,  Norwood;  Mrs.  Anna  Sweet,  '92,  Brooklyn;  Dr.  R.  E. 
Sykes,  '83,  Maiden,  Mass.;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Terwiliger,  Ossining; 
Mrs.  K.  M.  Townsend,  '96,  Waterville;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  E.  Van 
Delinder,  Dekalb  Junction;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walker,  Danville,  111.; 
Miss  L.  M.  Wallace,  '05,  Canton;  R.  E.  Waterman,  '72,  Ogdens- 


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burg;  R.  S.  Waterman,  '01,  Ogdensburg;  Miss  E.  Wells,  '05,  Can- 
ton; Mrs.  White,  Woodstock,  Vt.;  Dr.  J.  C.  Willson,  '78,  Canton; 
Thos.  Woods,  '91,  Syracuse. 


THE  PRESIDENT'S  REPORT 

To  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  St.  Lawrence  University: 

Gentlemen:  I  have  to  report  another  year  of  work  of  the  Uni- 
versity, and  to  recommend  to  you  such  action  as  may  advance  its 
interests.  We  may  justly  congratulate  ourselves  that  at  the  end  of 
fifty  years  of  existence  the  University  has  reached  a  measurable  con- 
dition of  success  and  has  the  assurance  of  permanence.  Planted  in 
a  comparatively  sparsely  populated  region,  almost  entirely  agricultu- 
ral and  therefore  without  great  accumulations  of  wealth,  it  was  not 
to  be  expected  that  the  University  could  become  large  in  numbers 
or  in  wealth,  but  it  has  an  alumni  list  of  no  mean  proportions,  a 
competent  teaching  force,  a  large  and  attractive  campus,  commo- 
dious and  creditable  buildings,  and  an  endowment  small,  but,  with 
economy,  sufficient  to  keep  the  institution  in  a  condition  of  financial 
solvency. 

Not  a  few  of  us  can  contrast  the  present  conditions  with  the  fre- 
quent periods  in  the  past  when  the  continuance  of  the  University 
seemed  problematical  and  its  ultimate  extinction  almost  a  certainty. 
But  a  kind  Providence  supplemented  by  human  effort  has  aided  us, 
until  to-day  the  University  numbers  nearly  five  hundred  students 
and  teachers  in  its  three  established  departments,  while  the  new 
department  about  to  be  established  will,  without  doubt,  greatly 
augment  our  numbers  and  influence. 

The  lines  upon  which  the  University  has  moved  have  been  sane 
and  salutary, — sound  scholarship,  a  cautious  but  enterprising  busi- 
ness policy,  and  the  preservation  of  high  standards  both  of  intel- 
lectual and  moral  character.  These  insure  permanence;  and  it  is 
ever  to  be  remembered  that  a  University  is  an  institution  of  a  thou- 
sand years,  and  while  superstructures  can  easily  be  changed  foun- 
dations must  be  enduring. 

I  cannot  too  often  repeat  the  imperative  necessity  of  the  most 
active  and  enterprising  business  policy.  To  remit  any  effort  in  this 
direction  is  not  only  to  compel  stagnation  but  to  invite  decline. 
The  competition  among  colleges  is  disgracefully  intense.  The  itch 
of  bigness  has  touched  the  governing  boards  of  all  the  colleges  and 
is  an  active  irritant  on  all  the  college  presidents.  The  strenuous 
rather  than  the  simple  life  is  the  modern  ideal,  and  the  cloistered 
leisure  of  the  old  days  has  given  way  to  the  bustle  and  hustling 
at  present  so  characteristic  of  all  departments  of  our  American  life. 
Deplore  it  as  we  may,  we  are  in  the  world  and  must  adjust  ourselves 
to  its  conditions. 


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I  have  great  reason  to  be  thankful  that  this  Board  is  in  sympathy 
with  all  reasonable  efforts  that  look  to  progress;  that  it  has  aided 
by  its  counsel  and  enthusiastically  loyal  support  all  the  policies 
of  the  administration.  And  in  this  connection  I  feel  that  I  can- 
not too  highly  commend  the  scrupulous  fidelity  of  our  Execu- 
tive Committee,  composed  of  graduates  familiar  with  the  history  of 
the  University  and  deeply  interested  in  its  welfare.  It  is  intelligent, 
conservatively  enterprising,  unsparing  of  time  and  labor.  Very 
much  of  our  excellent  financial  showing  is  due  to  the  wisdom  with 
which  our  investments  are  being  made  and  looked  after,  and  to  the 
signal  faithfulness  and  ability  of  our  Treasurer. 

The  morale  of  the  University  is  hopeful.  There  are  some  prob- 
lems in  the  teaching  force  which  have  to  be  solved;  they  are  in  pro- 
cess of  solution,  and  will,  no  doubt,  be  settled  with  prudence  and 
discretion.  With  the  increased  facilities  which  we  now  have  there 
will  be  an  increase  in  efficiency,  while  the  more  adequate  compen- 
sation which  the  Board  has  been  able  to  grant  has  heartened  our 
instructors  and  lightened  their  sacrifices.  In  this  connection  I 
would  recommend  the  addition  of  one  hundred  dollars  to  the  salary 
of  Professor  F.  S.  Mills,  making  the  amount  $1700. 

Our  students  have  not  only  increased  in  numbers  but  they  are 
coming  from  a  wider  territory.  During  the  year  a  serious  case  of 
discipline  caused  some  anxiety,  but  the  drastic  measures  which 
seemed  imperative  were  sustained  by  Faculty,  Executive  Board, 
Tmstees,  and  alumni,  and  the  result  has  been  salutary. 

THE  COLLEGE  OF  LETTERS  AND  SCIENCE 
The  most  notable  event  of  the  year  has  been  the  erection  of  the 
Carnegie  Science  Building.  It  speaks  for  itself.  Plain,  solid,  with- 
out ornamentation,  a  business  rather  than  a  show  building  has  been 
erected,  admirably  adapted  for  the  work  we  have  in  hand.  No 
shams  have  been  built  into  it,  and  now  that  it  is  finished  we  can 
hardly  think  of  any  changes  that  we  would  desire.  It  has  been  fin- 
ished without  debt  and  could  not  be  replaced  to-day  without  a  con- 
siderably increased  expense.  Hon.  A.  B.  Hepburn  contributed 
five  thousand  dollars  for  apparatus,  so  that  when  this  sum  is  fully 
spent  the  building  will  be  well  equipped.  The  alumni  have  con- 
tributed upwards  of  two  thousand  dollars  for  its  furnishing. 

Immediately  after  commencement  the  work  of  modernizing  the 
old  college  building  will  be  undertaken,  in  order  that  the  work  may 
be  completed  in  season  for  the  fall  term.  A  heating  plant  will  be 
installed,  recitation  rooms  enlarged,  the  perilous  stairways  sup- 
planted by  safer  ones,  and  the  building  which  has  so  admirably 
served  us  will  be  improved  without  destroying  its  essential  identity. 
The  wife  of  Dr.  Frederick  Lee  has  consented  to  put  in  a  beautiful 
window  as  a  memorial  of  the  late  Dr.  J.  S.  Lee.    The  cost  of 


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reconstructing  this  building  will  be  paid  by  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Richard- 
son, of  Worcester,  who  has  generously  added  one  thousand  dollars 
to  her  gift  of  ten  thousand  dollars  previously  given  for  this  pur- 
pose. She  has  given  thirty-six  thousand  dollars  to  the  University, 
and  is  its  devoted  and  untiring  friend.  The  building  hereafter  will 
be  called  Richardson  Hall  in  recognition  of  her  benevolence.  The 
enlarging  of  our  plant  means  enlarged  expense,  and  there  will  be  a 
necessity  for  an  increase  of  funds  if  we  are  to  do  our  work  without 
deficiencies. 

Through  the  kind  offices  of  Willis  Moore,  Chief  of  the  Weather 
Bureau,  an  observation  station  has  been  installed  in  the  Science 
Building;  a  competent  Superintendent  has  been  detailed  and  is 
already  at  work  installing  his  apparatus.  This  officer  is  appointed 
and  compensated  by  the  United  States  government. 

THE  ATHLETIC  FIELD 
Through  the  generosity  of  Mr.  T.  W.  Weeks,  of  Brooklyn,  we 
have  been  able  to  continue  our  work  of  equipping  the  Athletic  Field. 
The  expensive  grading  is  finished,  the  fence,  grand-stand,  and  gate- 
way have  been  made;  there  remains  only  the  making  of  the  track, 
with  a  few  other  matters.  The  condition  of  the  ground  and  a  lack 
of  funds  have  delayed  the  work;  when  the  grounds  and  the  funds 
get  settled,  the  work  will  be  completed.  Mr.  Weeks  has  added  the 
sum  of  two  thousand  dollars  to  his  previous  gift,  the  total  amount 
of  his  donation  being  eight  thousand  dollars. 

THE  LEE  PROPERTY 
In  accordance  with  the  instructions  of  the  Board  the  residence  of 
the  late  Professor  Lee,  with  the  adjoining  grounds,  has  been  pur- 
chased. It  was  not  expected  to  be  a  profitable  financial  investment, 
but  the  purchase  seemed  to  be  necessary  to  safeguard  the  property 
of  the  University.  There  is  little  doubt  that  the  property  will  soon 
be  sold  with  the  interests  of  the  University  in  every  way  secured. 
THE  THEOLOGICAL  SCHOOL 
The  number  of  students  continues  small.  Little  can  be  done  by 
the  school  itself  for  increase  of  numbers;  the  inspiration  which  sends 
young  men  into  the  ministry  must  come  from  the  pastors  of  par- 
ishes and  from  homes.  All  theological  schools,  with  rare  excep- 
tions, bewail  the  same  lack.  It  is  a  tendency  of  the  times  greatly 
to  be  deplored,  and  against  which  there  will  be  a  reaction  unless 
there  is  to  be  a  serious  decline  in  the  condition  of  all  denominations. 
During  the  year  the  school  has  lost  by  death  Professor  Orello  Cone. 
His  long  identification  with  the  school,  his  rare  scholarship,  his 
celebrity  as  a  theological  writer,  his  genial  personality,  make  his 
death  a  loss  not  only  to  the  University  but  to  the  larger  world  of 
scholarship.  His  death  and  the  retirement  of  Professor  L.  B. 
Fisher  to  take  the  presidency  of  Lombard  College  left  two  vacan- 


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cies  to  be  filled  on  the  Faculty.  The  Executive  Committee  called 
to  these  places  Rev.  John  Murray  Atwood,  of  Portland,  Me.,  and 
Rev.  Georg^e  Ezra  Huntley,  of  Oneonta.  They  had  but  little  time 
for  preparation  for  their  work,  but  they  have  already  proved  the 
wisdom  of  the  selection;  they  have  rendered  excellent  service,  which 
will  increase  in  value  as  the  work  becomes  familiar.  I  would 
recommend  their  election  by  this  Board  to  the  positions  to  which 
they  were  called  by  the  Executive  Board. 

Through  funds  solicited  from  the  alumni  of  the  Theological 
School,  Fisher  Hall  has  been  refurnished  and  redecorated.  Toward 
this  sum  Rev.  John  Hinds,  an  alumnus,  generously  contributed  one 
hundred  dollars.  The  one  thousand  dollars  which  made  possible 
the  beautiful  Hinds  Chapel  was  also  his  gift. 

THE  LAW  SCHOOL 
The  Law  Department,  the  Brooklyn  Law  School,  graduated  on  the 
sixth  of  June  eighty-five  students.  It  has  had  enrolled  during  the 
past  year  two  hundred  and  seventy-four  students.  It  is  expected 
that  the  next  school  year  will  see  an  enrollment  of  upwards  of  three 
hundred  students.  The  school  is  finely  housed,  has  in  its  Dean  and 
Faculty  competent  instructors,  is  clear  of  debt,  and  is  not  only  sus- 
taining a  generous  scale  of  expenditure  but  is  yielding  a  revenue  to 
the  University.  By  the  purchase  of  its  capital  stock  its  ownership 
by  the  University  is  now  as  complete  as  the  ownership  of  any  of  the 
other  departments.  It  is  admirably  supervised  by  an  Executive 
Committee  consisting  of  the  members  of  this  Board  resident  in 
Greater  New  York  and  the  vicinity.  Its  books  are  audited  by  the 
official  auditor  of  the  University. 

THE  AGRICULTURAL  SCHOOL 
A  new  department  of  this  institution  is  soon  to  be  established,  or 
rather  has  been  created  by  the  law  of  the  State,  through  the  appro- 
priation of  the  sum  of  eighty  thousand  dollars  for  the  creation  of 
the  plant  of  an  Agricultural  School  as  a  part  of  the  University. 
The  vote  of  this  Board  sanctioned  the  enterprise  and  empowered 
the  President  and  Executive  Board  to  take  the  necessary  steps  to 
establish  such  a  school.  Their  efforts  have  been  successful.  Too 
much  praise  cannot  be  awarded  to  Hon.  Edwin  A.  Merritt,  jr.,  the 
accomplished  assemblyman  of  this  district,  who  introduced  the  bill 
and  carried  it  without  a  dissenting  vote  through  the  Assembly,  and 
to  Hon.  George  R.  Malby,  who  performed  a  like  successful  service 
in  the  Senate;  and  they  did  not  cease  their  efficient  labors  until  the 
bill  was  signed  by  His  Excellency  Governor  Frank  W.  Higgins. 

Mr.  Merritt  is  the  son  of  the  President  of  this  Board  and  inherits 
something  not  only  of  his  distinguished  father's  ability,  but  also 
his  father's  large  loyalty  to  the  University.  The  respect  in  which 
Mr.  Merritt  is  held  by  his  colleagues  in  the  Assembly  by  reason  of 


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his  recognized  ability,  his  enthusiastic  belief  in  the  importance  and 
value  of  the  proposed  school  both  to  the  University  and  the  com- 
munity, gave  great  efifect  to  his  zeal  in  the  advocacy  of  the  bill  and 
its  translation  into  law.  He  has  labored  with  rare  skill  and  unsparing 
industry  and  persistence  for  this  bill,  and  the  gratitude  not  only 
of  this  Board  but  of  the  many  interests  that  the  school  will  serve 
are  due  to  him.  Senator  Malby  added  his  large  influence  to  the 
advancement  of  the  bill.  His  long  legislative  experience,  his  com- 
manding influence  in  the  Senate,  and  his  position  as  chairman  of 
■an  important  committee,  made  him  an  effective  champion.  Mr. 
Malby  is  one  of  the  sons  of  the  University;  he  has  admirably  served 
it  and  deserves  its  thanks.  I  would  suggest  that  some  appropriate 
action  be  taken  by  this  Board  in  recognition  of  the  service  of  these 
gentlemen.  Other  help  was  given  by  prominent  men  in  different 
parts  of  the  State,  while  the  press,  the  granges,  and  the  citizens  of 
Northern  New  York  gladly  added  their  work  and  influence. 

The  plan  of  the  school,  the  outlining  of  its  scope  and  work,  the 
creation  of  the  plant  and  its  erection,  require  careful  deliberation 
and  wise  counsel.  I  would  suggest  that  the  Board  delegate  power 
for  the  establishment  of  the  school  to  the  President  and  Executive 
Committee. 

OUR  NEEDS 

The  chair  of  Dr.  A.  G.  Gaines  has  never  been  filled,  though  his 
work  has  been  distributed  among  the  other  Professors,  and  is  being 
as  well  done  as  is  possible  under  the  circumstances.  There  ought 
to  be  added  at  least  two  new  Professors,  but  this  cannot  be  done 
without  a  very  large  increase  of  funds.  Our  productive  endowment 
is  pitiably  small.  How  it  is  that  we  are  able  to  do  so  much  with  so 
little  is  the  surprise  of  those  who  know  the  cost  of  carrying  on  such 
institutions.  We  are  remote  from  money  centres  and  are  located 
in  a  region  without  wealth,  while  our  alumni  are  for  the  most  part 
too  young  to  be  a  resource.  It  is  a  very  hard  problem  and  can  only 
be  solved  by  great  patience  and  active  and  persistent  work.  I  wish 
it  were  possible  to  increase  our  tuition  fee,  that  our  revenues  might 
be  increased  to  meet  our  increasing  needs,  but  I  do  not  deem  it 
expedient.  While  our  receipts  from  tuition  are  much  larger  than 
heretofore,  they  are  still  deplorably  small— our  tuition  fee  being  far 
below  that  of  most  other  colleges.  As  soon  as  practicable  the 
tuition  should  be  increased  to  a  sum  fairly  proportionate  to  the 
work  we  are  doing  and  the  charges  of  other  colleges. 

CONCLUSION 

In  conclusion,  this  report  is  manifestly  conservative  in  that  it  has  no 
startling  and  revolutionary  policies  to  suggest.  The  life  of  a  Uni- 
versity does  not  deal  in  surprises— it  is  largely  a  matter  of  routine- 
while  many  details  of  administration  which  might  with  profit  be 


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brought  before  the  Board  for  its  counsel,  were  the  Board  in  fre- 
quent session,  are  necessarily  settled  by  the  Executive  Board  which 
can  be  quickly  convened. 

We  are  growing  as  fast  as  it  is  wise  to  grow.  We  are  securing  an 
admirable  plant  well  adapted  to  our  needs.  We  are  changing  the 
campus  from  a  farm  into  a  park,  and  are  widening  and  deepening 
the  influence  of  the  University. 

We  must  have  a  new  chapel  if  we  are  to  have  even  slightly 
increased  numbers;  we  must  have  a  new  gymnasium  more  in  har- 
mony with  existing  buildings  and  more  adequate  to  serve  our  pres- 
ent needs;  but  these  must  come  as  gifts,  and  until  such  gifts  come 
they  and  all  other  things  must  wait,  as  our  endowment  must  be 
kept  inviolate.  Beyond  all,  we  must  have  an  increased  endowment. 
We  are  treading  too  near  the  danger  line  for  either  safety  or  com- 
fort, while  the  strenuous  practice  of  petty  economies,  especially 
after  a  lifetime  of  like  unexhilarating  experience,  tends  to  a  madden- 
ing depression  which  is  not  conducive  to  personal  comfort,  happi- 
ness, or  efficiency. 

If  any  members  of  the  Board  can  suggest  any  new  art  b}'^  which 
funds,  fairly  untainted,  can  be  secured,  or  point  out  the  trail  that 
leads  to  the  strong  boxes  of  the  rich  and  unwary,  they  may  perform 
a  patriotic  duty  by  placing  their  information  in  the  hands  of  the 
President;  while  any  contribution  of  personal  effort  in  this  direction 
on  the  part  of  the  Trustees,  will  be  accepted  with  profoundest  grati- 
tude. 

With  thanks  to  the  Board  for  its  cooperation,  sympathy,  and  sup- 
port, with  the  wish  that  our  largest  hopes  for  the  welfare  of  the 
University  may  presently  be  realized, 

I  with  much  respect  submit  this  report  for  your  consideration. 
ALMON  GUNNISON, 

President  of  St.  Lawrence  University. 


TREASURER'S  REPORT 

COLLEGE  OF  LETTERS  AND  SCIENCE 
BALANCE  SHEET 

April  30th,  1906. 

RECEIPTS 

Cash  on  hand  May  1st,  1905  $    5,739  38 

Gifts  for  Endowment: 
Balance  of  fund  Tellazeal  Hedenburg  Scholarship   453  34 

Principal  Paid  on  divestments: 

Bond  and  mortgage  $16,393  80 

Tuition  notes   40  00 

Subscription  notes   10  00 

Bills  receivable   3,670  75 

 $  20,114  55 


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Income  available  for  use: 

Interest  $14,399  32 

Tuition   5,432  00 

Expense  refunded   18  50 

One-third  steward's  salary   166  67 

Pad  fees   95  35 

Reading  room  fees   191  57 

Laboratory        "    461  75 

Gymnasium       "    785  70 

Diploma  "    210  00 

Zoology  "    52  40 

Mineralogy        "    10  00 

 $  21,823  26 

Loan,  L.  P.  Hale  adm   5,000  00 

"     Theo.  Dept   1,000  00 

Athletic  Field   4,000  00 

Mary  A.  Richardson  Bldg.  fund   6,000  00 

Carnegie  Science  Hall   45,000  00 

Carnegie  Science  Hall  furnishing  fund   1,472  09 

Classical  Library  fund   122  00 

Brooklyn  Law  School  income  acc't   1  400  69 

Loan  University  fund   5,000  00 


$117,125  31 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Investments:  / 

Bond  and  mortgage  $31,842  63 

Bills  payable   5,000  00 

 $  36,842  63 

Expenses: 

Salaries  $15,781  00 

Expense   2,890  50 

Fuel  and  light   392  96 

Paid  fees  account   120  51 

Reading  Room   219  00 

Laboratory   289  71 

Gymnasium   792  07 

Diplomas   268  90 

Zoology   12  10 

Annuities  and  interest  payments   576  53 

Tuition  refunded   62  50 

 $  21,405  78 

Paid  loan  Theo.  Dept   1,000  00 

Brooklyn  Law  School  income  acc't   110  00 

Cole  Reading  Room  income  acc't   359  00 

Athletic  Field   2,681  16 

Carnegie  Science  Hall   40,853  63 

Carnegie  Science  Hall  fur.  fund   1,265  80 

Cash  on  hand: 

First  National  Bank  $  3,013  33 

St.  Lawrence  County  Bank   9,593  98 

 $  12,607  31 

$117,125  31 


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With  the  exception  of  the  sura  of  $453.34  received  from  the  estate 
of  Tellazeal  Hedenburg  and  added  to  the  scholarship  fund  already 
received  from  this  source,  there  have  been  no  additions  to  the 
endowment  fund  of  the  college  department. 

Of  the  $50,000  given  by  Andrew  Carnegie  for  the  erection  of  a 
science  hall  on  the  campus,  $45,000  has  already  been  received  by 
the  Treasurer  and  paid  out  to  the  various  contractors  as  per  detail 
attached  to  this  report. 

The  fund  for  providing  furnishing  for  the  new  building,  at  the 
time  of  closing  the  books  for  the  annual  audit,  had  reached  the  sum 
of  $1,472.09,  but  a  number  of  new  subscriptions  have  been  received 
since  that  time  and  the  total  sum  of  cash  and  pledges  received  to 
date  amounts  to  $2,074.00. 

The  generous  gift  of  $10,000  by  Mrs.  Mar^--  A.  Richardson  for  the 
remodeling  of  the  old  college  building,  which  was  announced  last 
year,  has  been  supplemented  by  the  gift  of  another  thousand  dol- 
lars by  the  same  donor,  and  the  full  amount  has  been  received  by 
the  Treasurer.  This  insures  the  completion  of  the  work  in  the  most 
thorough  and  satisfactory'  manner,  and  Richardson  Hall,  as  it  will 
now  be  called,  will  be  second  to  none  of  the  other  buildings  in  point 
of  comfort  and  convenience. 

The  Treasurer  has  also  to  announce  the  receipt  of  $2,000  which 
Mr.  T.  A.  Weeks  has  added  to  his  already  generous  gift  of  $6,000 
for  the  completion  of  the  athletic  field,  and  it  is  expected  that  the 
track  will  be  built  this  summer  and  the  field  ready  for  use  in  the  fall. 

The  expenses  during  the  past  year  have  amounted  to  $19,331  15 
while  the  income  available  for  use  has  amounted  to   19,242  59 

teaving  a  deficit  of  $      88  56 

There  is,  however,  no  actual  deficit  in  the  department,  as  the 
amount  of  uncollected  interest  is  greater  than  a  year  ago  and  more 
than  enough  has  been  paid  in  since  closing  the  books  to  make  the 
year's  business  show  a  profit.  The  receipts  of  interest,  tuition,  and 
fees  are  about  the  same  as  last  year's,  and  the  fact  that  this  depart- 
ment has  suffered  no  losses  in  its  investments  and  that  all  its  securi- 
ties are  producing  income,  makes  possible  so  good  a  showing. 
The  endowment  of  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science  consists  of 


the  following  funds: 

Alvinza  Hayward  Professorship  $  30,000  00 

John  Craig  Professorship   25,000  00 

Joseph  W.  Clowes   5,000  00 

Lorena  Bicknell   10,000  00 

$50,000  subscription   50,000  00 

Richmond  Simmons   5,636  29 

George  C.  Thomas   2,500  00 

Columbus  R.  Cummings  Professorship   25,000  00 

Joseph  Boardman  Noble   250  00 

Harriett  Watson   660  65 


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Phineas  Taylor  Barnum  $  1 ,000  00 

Julia  Avery   100  00 

Jeremiah  Davis   1 ,000  00 

Edward  S.  Hoyt   3,342  13 

James  Henry  Chapin  Professorship   30,000  00 

Woman's  Professorship   32,688  42 

Harriet  Lewis  Scholarship   4,000  00 

Mary  Elizabeth  Newcomb  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Frances  E.  Steele   500  00 

Julia  A.  Clark   232  50 

Diadema  Bordwell   5,000  00 

General  Endowment   200  00 

Ephriam  Howe  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Alvinza  Hay  ward  Scholarship   1.000  00 

Caroline  S.  Vogel  Scholarship   1,000  00 

William  D.  Paris  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Frank  S.  and  Chas.  MacKenzie  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Sarah  A.  Jarvis  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Louisa  J.  Emerson  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Mary  A.  Weeks  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Almira  J.  Stratton  Scholarship   1,000  00 

A.  B.  Hepburn  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Frederick  A.  Guiteau  Scholarship   1,000  00 

N.  G.  Howe  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Bernard  Peters  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Mary  A.  Richardson  Scholarship   500  00 

Warren  Hedenburg  Scholarship..   2,453  34 

Theresa  Homet  Patterson  Scholarship   1,000  00 

J.  L.  Grandin  Scholarship   1,000  00 

James  Spears  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Edmund  Millen  Scholarship   1,000  00 

Oscar  and  Maria  Deniston  Trust  Fund   2,000  00 


$255,063  33 

This  endowment  is  invested  as  follows: 
Bonds  and  mortgages  bearing  6%  $  19,803  01 

5%   210,900  24 

Land  contracts  *'       6%   1,082  74 

5%   1,889  32 

Notes  6%   200  00 

5%   12  12 

Bonds  5%   19,953  33 

Brooklyn  Law  School      "       6%   6,000  00 


$259,840  76 

These  amounts  represent  the  interest  bearing  securities  of  this 
department,  and  the  fact  that  the  sum  of  the  investments  is  greater 
than  the  reported  endowment  is  brought  about  by  borrowing  the 
money  from  the  university  fund  and  carrying  the  securities  pur- 
chased among  those  of  the  college  department  for  convenience  in 
handling  and  to  avoid  the  possibility  of  having  on  hand  the  unin- 
vested balance  of  a  small  fund. 

The  arrears  of  interest  and  tuition  and  all  items  of  receipt  and 
expenditure  are  shown  in  the  various  exhibits  attached  to  this  report. 


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STATEMENT  OF  ASSETS  AND  LIABILITIES 

Assets: 


Land,  buildings  and  collections  $151,000  00 

Bond  and  mortgage  receivable  account   230,703  25 

Bonds   19,953  33 

Land  contracts   2,972  06 

Unpaid  subscriptions   5,606  64 

Overdraft   5,942  99 

Chapin-Andrews  mineral  collection   2,000  00 

Real  estate   1,350  00 

Brooklyn  Law  School   6,000  00 

Bills  receivable   512  12 

St.  Lawrence  County  Bank   9,593  98 

First  National  Bank   3,013  33 


$438,647  70 

Liabilities: 

Capital  stock  $151,000  00 

Bills  payable   2,000  00 

Endowment  fund   254,563  33 

Laboratory  account   131  15 

Cole  Reading  Room  endowment  fund   6,000  00 

Brooklyn  Law  School  income  account   2,269  45 

Prize  funds   55  00 

Athletic  Field   2,159  75 

Mary-  A.  Richardson  building  fund   11,000  00 

Carnegie  Science  Hall   4,140  77 

Carnegie  Science  Hall  furnishing  fund   206  29 

University  fund   5,000  00 

Classical  Library  fund   122  00 


$438,647  70 

THEOLOGICAL  DEPARTMENT 
BALANCE  SHEET 

April  30th,  1906. 

RECEIPTS 


Cash  on  hand  May  1st,  1905  $    1,969  20 

Principal  Paid  on  Investments : 

Bond  and  mortgage  $  11,492  95 

Land  contracts   240  00 

University  Fund  loan   2,000  00 

College  Dept.       "    1,000  00 

L.  P.  Hale  adm.  "    5,000  00 

 $  19,732  95 

Income  available  for  use: 

Interest  $  7,630  06 

Diplomas   25  00 

Reference  library   55  00 

Rent  President's  house   300  00 

University  Fund,  income   300  00 

Two-thirds  joint  expen.se   1,493  32 

Rent,  Lee  property   118  50 

 $    9,921  88 


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Brought  forward  $  9,921  88 

Almeda  and  Porter  Wheeler  Trust  fund   1,273  30 

Theo.  School  furnishing  fund   177  00 

Refund  for  books   10  19 


$  33,084  52 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Invested  in  bond  and  mortgage  securities  $    5,956  32 

Paid  loan  L.  P.  Hale  adm   5,000  00 

"    College  Dept   1,000  00 

Loss  of  principal,  three  mortgages   1,302  78 

Expense  $      482  20 

Joint  expense   2,539  99 

Repairs   158  98 

Aid  to  students   197  50 

Fuel  and  light   202  26 

Diplomas   19  75 

Reference  library   8  20 

Interest,  payments  and  annuities   358  80 

Salaries   6,443  00 

John  S.  Lee  property,  repairs   281  90 

 $  10,692  58 

Real  estate,  J.  S.  Lee  property   5,500  00 

Theo.  School  furnishing  fund   50  00 

Cash  on  hand  First  National  Bank   3,582  84 


$  33,084  52 

During  the  past  year  there  have  been  no  additions  to  the  endow- 
ment fund,  but  the  fund  known  as  the  Almeda  and  Porter  Wheeler 
Trust  Fund  has  been  increased  by  the  receipt  of  $1,273.30  from  the 
First  Universalist  Church  Society  of  Springville,  N.  Y.,  making  the 
present  total  $3,763.94.  The  income  received  from  this  fund  is 
returned  to  the  society  at  Springville,  so  that  no  benefit  is  derived 
from  it  at  this  time,  but,  as  reported  last  year,  should  the  society  at 
any  time  cease  to  exist  as  an  active  corporation,  the  entire  principal 
sum  becomes  the  property  of  the  Theological  School. 

This  department  has  again  suffered  a  loss  of  principal  on  three 
of  the  old  mortgages  dating  back  to  1888,  which  were  taken  from 
The  Lombard  Investment  Co.,  and  which  have  been  carried  on  the 
Treasurer's  books  as  assets  but  have  produced  no  income  for 
more  than  thirteen  years.  The  sura  invested  in  these  mortgages 
amounted  to  $1,500.00;  the  sum  realized  from  the  sale  of  the  prop- 
erty amounted  to  $197.22,  making  the  loss  of  principal  $1,302.78. 

There  still  remain  in  this  department  mortgages  of  this  character 
to  the  amount  of  $2,450.00,  which  have  produced  no  income  for 
years  and  are  of  very  doubtful  value. 

The  fund  started  during  the  year  for  refurnishing  and  refinish- 
ing  Fisher  Hall,  at  the  time  of  closing  the  books  amounted  to  $177, 
but  several  sub.scriptions  have  been  received  since,  bringing  the 
total  amount  up  to  $287.50.  The  money  has  been  expended  under 
the  direct  supervision  of  President  Gunnison. 


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The  expenses  for  the  past  year  have  amounted  to  $8,220  42 

while  the  income  available  for  use  has  amounted  to   7,576  51 

leaving  a  deficit  of  $  643  91 


This  unusual  deficit  is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  interest  receipts 
are  less  than  a  year  ago,  the  old  arrears  of  interest  being  now  nearly 
all  collected,  and  also  to  the  fact  that  the  $5,5oo  invested  in  the 
John  S.  Lee  property  has  produced  no  income,  the  money  spent 
for  necessary  repairs  having  considerably  exceeded  the  amount 
received  for  rent. 

The  expenses  of  the  University  which  fall  jointly  on  the  College 
department  and  the  Theological  department  were  originally  divided 
equally,  but  a  few  years  ago,  two-thirds  of  this  was  imposed  on  the 
College  and  only  one-third  required  of  the  Theological  School.  It 
may  be  necessary  to  make  a  still  further  division  of  this  joint 
expense  unless  the  productive  funds  can  be  increased. 

The  endowment  of  the  Theological  School  consists  of  the  follow- 


ing funds: 

Charles  A.  Ropes  $  5,000  00 

Augustus  D.  Moore  Professorship   25,000  00 

John  Craig  Professorship   25,000  00 

George  A.  Dockstader  Professorship   10,000  00 

Thomas  A.  Goddard   3,000  00 

Sarah  A.  Gage   37,456  00 

Lester  Taylor   4,000  00 

William  H.  Ryder  Professorship   32,808  40 

Nancy  Burton   1,000  00 

David  I.  Stagg   5,018  61 

Luna  A.  Davis   666  69 

Mary  A.  Gunn   2,000  00 

Frances  E.  Steele   500  00 

Julia  A.  Clark   232  50 

Sidney  U.  Main   2,000  00 

Moses  D.  Cummings   1,150  52 

Mary  A.  Pratt   500  00 

Lyman  Bickford  library  fund   1,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  Richardson   24,000  00 

General  endowment   1,400  00 


$181,732  72 

These  funds  are  invested  as  follows: 

Bonds  and  mortgages  bearing  6%  interest   $  10,770  00 

5%      "    117,669  12 

Notes                            "       6%      "    5,110  00 

Land  contracts               "       5%      "    1,900  00 

Western  mortgages         "        no      "    2,450  00 

Railroad  bonds                "        5%      "    2,000  00 

4%      "    4,88125 

U.  S.  of  Mexico  bonds    "       5%      "    5,026  67 

Railroad  stock                "        7%      "    100  00 

President's  house   5,000  00 

John  S.  Lee  property   5,500  00 


$150,407  04 


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The  balance  of  the  reported  endowment  consists  of  cash  on  hand, 
overdraft  and  sundry  other  items  connected  with  old  western  invest- 
ments. The  arrears  of  interest  amount  to  $729.15,  and  the  details 
together  with  all  the  items  of  receipt  and  expenditure  are  given  in 
the  various  exhibits  attached  to  this  report. 

STATEMENT  OF  ASSETS  AND  LIABILITIES 


Assets: 

First  National  Bank  $    3,582  84 

Stocks  and  bonds   12,007  92 

Notes   5,110  00 

Bonds  and  mortgages   128,439  12 

Land  contracts   1,900  00 

President's  house   5,000  00 

Missouri  Valley  Trust  Co   341  46 

Overdraft   25,711  77 

John  S.  Lee  property  account   163  40 

Real  estate   5,500  00 


$187,756  51 

Liabilities: 

Endowment  fund  $181,732  72 

Reference  library   132  85 

Almeda  and  Porter  Wheeler  trust  fund;   3,763  94 

Fisher  Hall  furnishing  fund   127  00 

University  fund   2,000  00 


$187,756  51 

UNIVERSITY  FUND 

This  fund,  reported  last  year  at  $5,000.00,  has  been  increased  by 
the  receipt  of  $2,000.00  from  the  estate  of  Susan  VanDuzen  Hobbe 
and  $5,000.00  from  Ambrose  R.  Fenner,  of  New  Berlin,  N.  Y.  The 
latter  sum,  however,  is  not  available  for  use,  as  interest  on  the  full 
amount,  computed  at  6%,  must  be  paid  to  Mr.  Fenner  during  his 
life,  and  in  the  event  of  his  death  before  that  of  his  wife  the  same 
income  must  be  paid  to  her  as  long  as  she  lives.  Thereafter  the 
money  becomes  the  property  of  the  University. 

The  total  available  income  for  the  past  year  has  amounted  to 
$300.00  and  has  been  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  joint  expense 
account,  as  may  be  noted  elsewhere. 

THE  LIBRARY 

The  endowment  fund  of  Herring  Library  remains  at  $1,000.00  as 
reported  last  year.  This  sum  is  invested  in  a  mortgage  bearing 
5%  interest,  and  the  interest  is  paid  regularly  and  placed  to  the 
credit  of  the  available  income  account.  During  the  year  the  library 
has  received  from  George  K.  Hawkins  a  gift  of  $25.00,  and  the 
income  account  has  been  credited  with  a  refund  of  $35.60  from  the 
reading  room,  bringing  the  total  amount  of  available  income  for 
the  year  up  to  $164.95.  This  includes  the  sum  of  $54.35  carried  for- 
ward from  last  year.    The  expenses  for  the  year  have  amounted  to 


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$73.73,  leaving  a  balance  of  cash  on  hand  at  the  end  of  the  year  of 
$91.22,  which  sum  is  on  deposit  in  the  St.  Lawrence  County  Bank. 

Numerous  gifts  of  books  have  been  received  during  the  year, 
notable  among  which  are,  a  set  of  books  costing  $350.00  and  pre- 
sented by  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Richardson,  Worcester,  Mass,  one  hundred 
books  from  the  Church  of  our  Father,  Brooklyn,  and  forty  books 
from  T.  H.  Potterton,  D.D.,  of  Brooklyn. 

CLINTON  LIBERAL  INSTITUTE 


BALANCE  SHEET 

April  30,  1906. 

RECEIPTS 

Cash  on  hand  May  1st,  1905  $        7  70 

From  interest  on  investments  $1,901  72 

From  principal  paid  on  investments   2,750  00 

 $  4,651  72 


$  4,659  42 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Paid  college  department  for  current  expenses. .  ..$1,901  72 

Invested  in  bond  and  mortgage  securities   2,400  00 

 $  4,301  72 

Cash  on  hand  First  National  Bank   357  70 


$  4,659  42 

The  endowment  of  the  Clinton  Liberal  Institute  consists  of  the 
following  funds: 

H.  B.  Fellows  fund  $  3,000  00 

H.  C.  Adams  fund   213  96 

Craig  fund   25,000  00 

Howe  Fund   10,000  00 

General  endowment  fund   1,786  04 


$40,000  00 

These  funds  are  invested  as  follows: 

Bonds  and  mortgages  bearing  6%  interest  $  1,500  00 

'*  "       5%       "    35,175  00 

Note  "       5%    2,967  30 

$39,642  30 

The  whole  property  of  the  University  is  estimated  as  follows: 

Lands,  buildings  and  collections  $151,000  00 

Endowment  Funds: 

College  of  Letters  and  Science  $255,063  33 

Theological  School   181,732  72 

Herring  Library   1,000  00 

Cole  Reading  Room   6,000  00 

University  fund   7,000  00 

Clinton  Liberal  Institute   40,000  00 

 $490,769  05 


$641,769  05 


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THE  BROOKLYN  LAW  SCHOOL 
BALANCE  SHEET 

For  Year  Ending  April  30,  1906. 


Resources: 

Subscription  Account  $50,000  00 

Library  (Inventory)   3,855  15 

Furniture  and  Fixtures  (Inventory)   1,243  29 

Bills  Receivable  (Students'  Notes)   344  00 

Tuition  (Due  April  1,  1906,  unpaid)   993  00 

Cash,  Nassau  Trust  Co  $5,014  43 

On  hand   113  76   5,128  19 

 $61,563  63 

Liabilities: 

Capital  Stock  $50,000  00 

Undivided  Profits   6,825  18 

Edward  Thompson  Co   129  00 

  56,954  18 


Net  Profit  for  Year  Ending  April  30,  1906  $  4,609  45 


Receipts: 

Tuition  $21,607  50 

Commencement  1905   74  75 

 $21,682  25 

Disbursements : 

Circulars  and  Advertising  $     394  50 

Salaries   10,442  48 

Loss  and  Gain   10  00 

Furniture  and  Fixtures   100  00 

Insurance   15  39 

Interest   222  53 

Discount   15  33 

Expense   4,579  09 

Commission,  6%  on  gross  tuition  receipts  from 

April  30,  1905,  to  April  30,  1906. .  .$21,558  00    1,293  48 

 $17,072  80 


Net  Profits  for  Year  Ending  April  30,  1906  $  4,609  45 


Certificate  of  auditor  appointed  by  the  Executive  Committee  to 
exaimine  the  accounts  of  the  Treasurer. 

Canton,  N.  Y.,  May  19,  1906. 

To  the  Executive  Committee, 

St.  Lawrence  University, 

Canton,  N.  Y. 

Gentlemen:  — 

In  accordance  with  the  request  of  said  committee,  I  beg  leave  to 
certify  that,  having  examined  the  books,  records,  securities,  insur- 
ance policies,  and  the  report  of  the  Treasurer  of  vSt.  Lawrence  Uni- 
versity for  the  fiscal  year  ending  April  30th,  1906,  I  find  the  same  to 
be  correct  and  the  financial  condition  as  stated  in  his  report. 

William  H.  Craig,  Auditor. 


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COMMENCEMENT  OF  THE  LAW  SCHOOL 

The  Commencement  of  the  Law  School  took  place  in 
one  of  the  largest  theatres  in  Brooklyn,  and  this  was  packed 
to  its  utmost  capacity.  The  graduating  class  numbered 
eighty-five.  A  large  orchestra  was  in  attendance,  and  the 
stage  was  elaborately  decorated  with  the  college  colors,  plants 
and  flowers.  The  private  boxes  were  eccupied  by  the  va- 
rious fraternities,  who  added  much  to  the  life  of  the  exer- 
cises by  their  cheers.  President  Gunnison  presided  and 
conferred  the  degrees.  Justice  Samuel  Maddox  delivered 
the  address  to  the  graduating  class,  and  Dean  Richardson 
announced  the  various  prizes.  The  Faculty,  Trustees,  and 
distinguished  guests  occupied  the  platform.  The  exer- 
cises were  characterized  by  the  most  enthusiastic  spirit, 
caused  by  the  large  class  and  the  bright  prospects  for  the 
future.  The  school  is  now  the  third  largest  law  school  in 
the  State. 

CARNEGIE  SCIENCE  HALL 

The  Carnegie  Science  Hall  is  an  imposing  building 
erected  of  brick  with  Indiana  stone  trimmings.  It  is  plain 
but  dignified,  and  admirably  adapted  to  its  uses.  The 
principal  ornamentation  is  in  the  main  entrance,  which 
consists  of  an  outside  porch  supported  by  stone  columns. 
The  building  is  well  lighted,  the  halls  are  spacious,  and 
the  recitation  rooms  commodious.  The  interior  finish  is  of 
North  Carolina  pine,  stained  dark.  The  rooms  are  fur- 
nished with  opera-chair  tablet  seats,  and  no  reasonable 
expense  has  been  spared  in  the  equipment  and  furniture. 
The  building  contains  a  large  museum,  photographic, 
photometric,  and  assay  rooms,  ample  laboratories  for 
physics,  chemistry,  and  biology,  a  work-room  with  engine, 
dynamo,  lathes,  etc.,  and  rooms  for  the  use  of  the  Weather 
Bureau.  There  is  also  a  private  room  for  every  professor. 
The  building  is  one  hundred  and  fourteen  feet  long  and 
fifty-seven  feet  wide.  It  has  been  built  in  the  most 
thorough  manner.  There  is  a  large  heating  plant  in  the 
basement,  and  all  the  rooms  are  lighted  by  electricity. 


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THE  AGRICULTURAL  SCHOOL 

A  few  days  before  commencement,  Governor  Higgins 
put  his  signature  to  tfie  bill  establishing  an  Agricultural 
Department  in  connection  with  the  University.  The  bill 
appropriated  ^80,000  for  the  making  of  the  plant,  the 
State  to  provide  in  addition  an  annual  maintenance  fund. 
The  school  will  be  established  at  the  earliest  practicable 
moment.  The  building  will  be  erected  on  the  land  directly 
opposite  the  new  Athletic  Field,  and  will  be  an  admirable 
piece  of  architecture  in  every  way  suited  to  its  use.  An 
option  has  already  been  secured  on  the  adjoining  Bassett 
farm,  which  extends  from  the  present  University  grounds 
to  the  river.  The  intelligence  of  the  establishment  of  this 
new  department,  with  the  completion  of  the  Carnegie  Sci- 
ence Hall  and  the  proposed  immediate  reconstruction  of 
the  old  college  building,  added  much  to  the  enthusiasm  of 
commencement. 

REUNION  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1896 

A  particularly  pleasant  feature  of  commencement  week 
was  the  reunion  meeting  of  the  class  of  1896,  held  on 
Tuesday.  This  class,  with  nineteen  members  now  living, 
brought  eleven  to  the  reunion  at  the  tenth  anniversary, 
those  present  being  Frank  J.  Arnold,  James  C.  Dolan, 
William  J.  Heckles,  Leslie  J.  Johnson,  Charles  McCor- 
mick,  Lelia  H.  Merriman,  Katherine  E.  Moog,  George  H. 
Partridge,  Florence  Storrs-Lynch,  Katherine  Tallman- 
Townsend,  Mary  Traver-Ladd. 

The  meeting  organized  with  James  C.  Dolan  as  chairman 
and  Frank  J.  Arnold  as  secretary. 

Miss  Katherine  Moog,  of  Baltimore,  Md. ,  was  awarded 
tlie  palm  for  coming  the  greatest  distance.  A  canvass  of 
the  class  furnished  the  following  statistics:  Teachers, 
eight;  lawyers,  three;  one  clergyman;  one  newspaper  man; 
business  men,  three;  married,  ten;  number  of  children, 
seven. 

After  an  hour  spent  in  reminiscences  and  an  exchange 
of  experiences,  the  matter  of  a  class  memorial  scholarship 


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was  brought  up  and  enthusiastically  received.  It  was 
voted  unanimously  to  found  such  a  scholarship — the  first 
class  scholarship  in  the  history  of  the  University.  Five  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars  were  pledged  at  the  meeting,  and  a 
committee  consisting  of  Frank  J.  Arnold,  of  Brooklyn, 
George  H.  Partridge,  of  New  York,  and  KatherineE.  Moog, 
of  Baltimore,  was  appointed  to  raise  the  remainder  of  the 
fund.  Charles  B.  McCormick,  of  Watertown,  and  James 
C.  Dolan,  of  Gouverneur,  were  appointed  to  draw  up  the 
necessary  legal  papers.  The  resolve  of  the  class  and  the 
encouraging  progress  made  toward  its  accomplishment 
were  announced  at  the  Alumni  Anniversary  Reunion  on 
the  evening  of  the  same  day.     (See  page  183). 

WORTH  PICKETT  ABBOTT 

On  June  seventh,  at  Cranberry  Lake,  occurred  the  death 
of  Worth  Pickett  Abbott.  Mr.  Abbott  was  twenty-seven 
years  old.  He  was  one  of  the  honor  men  of  his  class  in  St. 
Lawrence  University,  graduating  in  1900,  where  he  was  an 
active  and  much  esteemed  member  of  Beta  Zeta  chapter 
of  Beta  Theta  Pi.  After  graduation  he  went  to  New  York 
to  enter  a  law  school,  but  symptoms  of  consumption,  the 
disease  of  which  he  died,  soon  showed  themselves,  and  he 
returned  to  his  home  in  Gouverneur.  In  1902  he  married 
Miss  Helen  Probst,  who  was  a  member  of  his  class  in  St. 
Lawrence.  They  soon  moved  to  Cranberry  Lake,  where  his 
father,  Hon.  V.  P.  Abbott,  had  large  lumber  interests.  At 
the  Lake  he  represented  the  Adirondack  Lumber  Company, 
was  Secretary  of  the  Abbott  Lumber  Company,  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  Gouverneur  Lumber  Company.  His 
health  continued  to  fail,  and  in  1904  he  and  his  wife  went 
to  Arizona,  where  for  a  time  he  experienced  benefit.  They 
later  returned  to  the  east,  and  have  since  resided  mainly  at 
the  Lake, but  spent, a  portion  of  their  time  in  Rochester, the 
former  home  of  Mrs.  Abbott,  and  at  Gouverneur.  The 
funeral,  at  which  many  of  his  classmates  and  college 
friends  were  present,  was  held  at  the  home  of  his  parents 
in  Gouverneur  on  Saturday,  June  9.    He  was  a  remarkably 


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likeable  young  man,  and  gathered  to  himself  friends  every- 
where. He  was  a  leader  in  college,  quiet,  unassuming, 
but  forceful.  The  many  friends  of  his  widow,  and  of  Hon. 
and  Mrs.  Abbott,  tender  their  heartfelt  sympathy. 

COLLEGE  NOTES 

Copies  of  this  issue  may  be  had  on  application  to  the 
Business  Manager,  Ogden  Conkey,  whose  address  for  the 
summer  is  Canton.    The  price  is  twenty  cents  per  copy. 

At  Gouverneur,  N.  Y.,  July  twenty-fifth,  occurred  the 
marriage  of  Kate  Louise  Sudds  'oi,  only  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henry  Sudds,  and  Almon  Lytle  'oi,  of  Buffalo,  at  the 
home  of  her  parents  in  the  presence  of  about  thirty  relatives 
and  friends. 

Beta  chapter  of  Delta  Delta  Delta  spent  a  week  at  Mic 
Mac  Shac  camp.  Lake  Ozonia,  as  the  guests  of  Miss 
Florence  O'Neil,  'og.  Thence  they  went  to  the  convention 
in  Syracuse,  where  the  chapter  was  represented  by  eleven 
of  the  active  chapter  and  thirteen  of  the  alumnae. 

The  work  of  remodeling  the  interior  of  Richardson  Hall 
is  well  underway.  Already  the  tearing  out  of  the  old  par- 
titions is  finished  and  the  work  of  building  up  has  begun. 
Since  commencement  the  generous  friend  whose  name  the 
building  now  bears  has  added  $3200  to  her  previous  gifts. 

Miss  Florence  L.  Morrison  and  Mr.  Edward  Anthony 
Adler  were  united  in  marriage  on  Wednesday,  June  6,  the 
ceremony  being  at  Boston.  They  will  make  their  home  at 
499  Audubon  Road,  Boston.  Mr.  Adler  was  a  member  of 
the  class  of  '95,  and  after  graduation  here  pursued  his  pro- 
fessional studies  in  the  Harvard  Law  School.  He  is  now 
a  successful  lawyer  in  the  New  England  metropolis. 

The  Board  of  Editors  for  the  year  beginning  with  this 
issue  is  as  follows:  Editor-in-Chief,  William  E.  Sims,  '07; 
Assistant  Editor,  Fred  C.  Leining,  '08;  Associate  Editors, 
Marion  Cummings,  '07,  Mary  R.  Per  Lee,  '07,  Royal  S. 
Milligan,  '08,  Lou  L.  Heaton,  '05;  Business  Manager, 
Ogden  F.  Conkey,  '08;  Assistant  Business  Manager,  Mel- 
ford  L.  Brown,  '08. 


Aaveriisements 


Remiiigton's 


Miner  Block,  Main,  con  Court  Street 


5         The  oldest  and  largest  Clothing  establishment  in  St,  \ 
Lawrence  county,  is  where  College  Men  buy  their  \ 

Clotbing  ♦  ♦  ♦  b 


Ready  to  Wear  and  Made  to  Measure 

GENTLEMEN'S  FURNISHING  GOODS, 
HATS  AND  CAPS, 


DRESS  SUITS  A  SPECIALTY 


Oy  TJ^    have  a  Shop  on  Main  street,  just  opposite  the 
Park.    If  you  look,  you'll  see  their  sign-board. 
It's  hung  on  the  Marble  Block — second  floor. 

Here  they  make  Photographs  and  Frames,  cheerfully  and 
well,  because  they're  cheerful  fellows,  fond  of  their  work. 

You  should  visit  their  Shop;   it's  always  replete   with  up- 
to-date  samples  of  Photographs  and  Frames —  Oj.  TJ^ 
products  you  may  sometimes  require — products  of 


Advertisements 


Established  in  1887. 


CI)e  ^trst  national  3ank  of  ^axxion 

Capital  $100,000 

Surplus  $  60,000 

REUBEN  T.  WELLS,  President 

WRILEY  N.  BEARD,  Cashier  and  Vice  President 

Accounts  of  college  students  will  receive  our  best  attention 

The    Delmonico  Restaurant 

Meals  at  all  hours.  Full  course  dinner  from  11  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.,  25c.   Oysters  in 
every  style.  Parties  served  on  short  notice.   Meals  a  la  carte. 


I=^^DE)I_^ES  and  OA^RS 

Woodworking  of  all  kinds  promptly  done  at 

P.H.Mccormick         McCORMlCK   &   MAIN  Geo.  L.  Main 

General  Hardware,  Tinning  and  Plumbing-,  Hot  Water,  Steam  Heating  and 
Steel  Ceiling  Work.   Particular  attention  paid  to  Job  Work, 
Cisterns,  Pumps,  Etc. 
Corner  Main  and  Water  Streets.  Canton,  N.  Y. 

Practical  Jeweler  and  Optician.   Dealer  in  Diamonds,  Watches  and  Pine  Jewelry. 

REPAIRING  A  SPECIALTY 
Also  St4itionery,  Books,  School  Supplies,  Umbrellas,  Cut  Glass,  Fancy  China,  etc* 
Matthews  Block,  Main  Street,  Canton,  N.  Y. 

INdilSS  P'^IOE'S  well  known  J^TtT  STORE 
is  a. veritable  free  museum.    Novelties  suitable  for  the  holidays  and  all 

all  other  days.    College  girls  especially  invited  to  call. 
No.  76  Main  Street  Opposite  the  Park 

THE  COMMERCIAL  ADVERTISER 

Hodskin  Street,  Canton,  N.  Y.        Gives  all  the  College  news. 

F"INE>  JOB  t^I^INTINO 


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HOWE  tBFeOTHEFiS 

  DEALERS  IN   

Hardware,    Dairy    Supplies,  Implements 

STOVES  AND  FURNACES 
Tinware,  Mechanics'  Tools,  Sporting  Goods,  ^'c. 
Job  Work  Promptly  Done  Cor.  Main  and  Hodskin  Sts.,  Canton 

HECKLES  &  EGGLESTON 

Dealers  in  Groceries  and  Provisions,  Confectionary,   Fruits,  Cigars, 
Tobacco,  Etc. 

Getman  Block  South  Side  Main  Street 


DRY  GOODS,     NOTIONS,     CARPETS,     ETC.,  ETC. 

Our  stock  is  up  to  date  and  the  prices  are  attractive. 
Agents  for  the  P.  Centeraeri  Kid  Gloves  and  Bissell's  Carpet  Sweepers. 
Special  Bargains  for  College  Trade. 

GEORGE  M.  STUART 
Plumbing,  Heating,  Roofing,  General  Jobbing 

DRURY  BLOCK.  MAIN  STREET 

Stationery,  Athletic  Goods,  Pennants,  Books  and 
School  Supplies. 

Mrs*  Alex.  Milne,  Cateress 

Special  Attention  to  CoUegfe  Parties,  Banquets, Weddings,  &c. 

Number  6  Pine  Street,  Canton 


Advertisements 


Established  in  1816  Hates,  Two  Dollars 

The  American  House 

CANTON,  N.  Y. 
LaRue  &  Sargent    -----  Proprietors 
E'ree  Buss  to  all  Trains  Livery  in  Connection 

THE  FISK  TEACHERS'  AGENCIES. 

New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  etc. 

Especially  serviceable  to  College  graduates  by  reason  of  large  patron- 
age among  the  better  class  of  High  Schools  aud  Private  Schools.  Send 
for  circulars. 

H.  E.  Crocker.  ) 
New  York  Office  W.  D.  Kerr,       \  Managers 

156  Fifth  Ave.  P.  V.  Huyssoon,  ) 


SEE  ABNER  ALDRICH 

 FOR  YOUR  

Staple  and  Fanqr  Groceries  at  Low  Prices 

Next  Door  to  Howe  Bros.  Main  Street,  Canton 

Seniors  Going  Into  Business  or  Technical  Work 

Should  write  us  to-day  for  full  information  concerning  desirable  positions  in 
all  parts  of  the  country.  We  already  have  1,271  definite  places  for  College, 
University  and  Technical  School  graduates  to  begin  work  in  July  or  Septem- 
ber and  the  list  is  growing  daily.  A  choice  of  the  best  opportunities  is 
yours  if  you  write  us  at  once,  stating  age,  course  taken,  practical  experience 
if  any,  and  line  of  work  preferred. 

The  National  Organization  of  Brain  Brokers 
309  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Offices  in  Other  Cities. 

UL.  A.  OIBBOlSrS,  iniorist 

Cut  Flowers  and  Plants  always  on  hand,  at  reasonable  prices.  Orders 
for  parties  and  banquets  promptly  attended  to.  Remember  the  "New 
Floral  Store,"  at  the  corner  of  Lincoln  and  Mechanic  streets. 


Adveriisetnents 


For  college  Students.  Stamped  with  originality.  Every- 
thing to  make  a  student's  room  unique  and  artistic.  Up-to- 
date  wall  papers,  borders,  frescoes,  burlaps,  etc.  Our 
work  is  "all  right."    Our  prices  are  <*all  right." 

Homer  B.  Townsend,  Canton,  N.  Y. 


Moat  modern  and  up-to-date  barber  shop  in  Northern  New  York.  Electric 
massage  machine  and  compressed  air.   Also  shoe  shining. 

L.  E.  Cornell,  Proprietor  Canton,  N.  Y. 


COOK  &i  SMITH 

GENERAL  MACHINISTS 

Boilers,  Steam  and  Gasoline  Engines,  Bicycles  and  Bicycle 
Repairing,  Automobiles  and  Repairs,  Pulleys,  Hangers,  Etc. 

WATER  STREET,  CANTON,  N.  Y. 


THE  WHITMARSH  CASH  STORE 

Go  to  the  Whitraarsh  Cash  Store  for  Ladie's  Gloves,  Belts,  Bags,  Under- 
wear, Hosiery,  etc.    Also  for  Gent's  Hosiery,  Underwear, 
Collars,  Ties,  Handkerchiefs,  etc. 


ST.  LAWRENCE  COUNTY  BANK,  CANTON,  N.  Y. 

Having  ample  facilities  for  the  transaction  of  all  business  entrusted  to  us,  the 

accounts  of  corporations,  firms  and  individuals  arc  solicited. 
JAMES  SPEARS,  President  S.  D.  KIMBALL,  Cashier 

M.  D.  PACKARD,  Vice  President  C.  S.  COOK,  Asst.  Cashier 


Is  headquarters  for  Men's  and  Boys  Clothing  and  Furnisning  Goods  His  line 
comprises  the  celebrated  W.  G.  «&  B.  guaranteed  clothing,  the  Gold  and  Silver 
Shirts,  Collars  and  Cuffs  and  the  Franklin  Hat.  Give  him  a  call. 


No.    1 1    John   Street,    New  Vork 
OFFICIAL    FRATERNITY  JEWELER 
Maker  of  High  Grade  and  Artistic  Goods  Pertaining  to  College  and  Fra- 
ternity Insignia  and  Devices.    Designs  and  Estimates  for  Special  Work. 


Advertisements 


CONKEY 


The  Druggist 


Sells 


WALLACE'S  FINE  CANDIES 

DELICIOUS  SODA  WATER,  hot  and  cold 

CIGARS  AND  TOBACCOS,  popular  brands 

TOILET  ARTICLES,   all   the  nice  things 
necessary  for  comfort  and  elegance. 


Main  Street,  opposite  the  American  House 


The. 


Leading 
Shoe  Dealers 
In  Canton 


For  the  last  forty  years 

)•  B.  Ellsworth  &  Son 


CLELAND  AUSTIN 

CARPETS,  CLOAKS  AND  DRESSMAKING 
Headquarters  for  College  Trade 
MATTHEWS  BLOCK,  MAIN  STREET.  CANTON 

Livery  and    Sale  Stable 

AT  AMERICAN  HOUSE  BARNS,  CANTON 


frPOraP  AA/"     T;irtr  F^^^  Pastries,  Bread,- 

VjeOrge    VV^jaCK  ^Ice  Cream,  Lunches 

and,  in  fact,  everything  in  their  line,  on  short  notice.  Orders  for  parties 
and  banquets  promptly  attended  to.  College  patronage  especially  solic- 
ited.   At  the  City  Bakery,  south  side  Main  street,  Canton. 


Advertisemenis 


C.  E.  BROEFFLE 


Don't  fail  to  see 


la  Sole  Agent  in  Canton  for 


L.  W.  Eldredge's 


F«e;cl  Sum  Teca 


Designs  and  get  his  Prices 
before  ordering 


Memorial 

Work 


The  Pratt  Teachers'  Agency 


70  FIFTH  AVENUE,  NEVy/  YORK 

Recommends  college  and  normal  school  graduates,  special- 
ists and  other  teachers  to  colleges,  public  and  private  schools. 

The  agency  receives  many  calls  from  all  parts  of  the 
country  for  college  graduates,  with  or  without  experience. 


XVe  IVTacle^  It  It  I«  PvJlg^l-.t" 

OflBcial  Jewelers  of  the  Leading  Colleges,  Schools  and  Associations 


CLASS  PINS,  FRATERNITY  PINS,  MEDALS 
CUPS,   WATCHES,   DIAMONDS,  JEWELRY 

SB  Jotin  Street,  ISTew  ITorlsL 


"The  Golden  5hoe" 


Has  style,  it  has  quality  too,  and  it  fits,  three.    Get  it. 


WM.  O.  PRATT,  Manager. 


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Model  Steam  Laundry 

\Z  Court  Street^  Canton-^^ 


.^^College  Trade  a  Specialty. 


W.  C.  CASE,  Proprietor. 


,  <><>0<>00<>00<><><><><><X><>  0 

^  W.  E.  DUNN  S  SON  ^ 


IBLE  PROVIDERS 

^  W.  E.  DUNN  S  SON  ^ 

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO' 


 Proprietor  of  the  

Canton  Packing  Company 

Choice  Fresh  and  Salt  MeatSy  Poultry  and  Fish 
Vegetables  in  their  Season 

Donihee  &  Baker  Block  Canton,  New  York 

h  NEW  YOEK,  ONTAKIO  AND  WESTEEN  9 

h  CELEBRATED  0 

X  Lackawana  Valley  and  White  Asb  Goal!  \ 

^  NONE     BETTER.  6 

Opera  House  Bldg.  .A..  J".  ILj^I^Hi  Canton,  New  York  6 

FOR  THE  STUDENTS! 

St.  Lawrence  students  should  patronize,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, those  who  advertise  in  The  Laurentian.  The 
financial  success  of  the  magazine  is  in  a  measure  depend- 
ent on  the  income  derived  from  advertisements,  and  such 
a  favor  will  be  very  gratifying  to  the  manager  and  also 
to  the   advertisers.    They  will  endeavor  to  please  you. 


A  dvertisenients 


St.  Cawrence  piamacakr 

CANTON,  N.  Y. 

Eight  Seven- Co Imnn  Pages  Published  Every  Wednesday 

University  and  other  Local  News  a  specialty 
Subscription  $i.oo  a  year  in  advance;  $1.15  outside  St.  Lawrence  county 

FINE  COLLEGE  PRINTING  A  SPECIALTY 

ARTOGRAPHY— The  New  Photographic  Art 

Gives  the  PORTRAIT  every  appearance  of  a  Sketch: 
that  breezy  lack  of  precision  effect. 

RUNIONS-Maker  of  fine  Photography  of  every  description-RUNIONS 

The  Runions  Block,  Canton,  N.  Y. 


-p.  1  promptly  attended  to  if  left  at  B.  S. 

OaQ^Q'B.^'C   vJrderS  Stevens'   Store.     Dealer  in  Shingles, 
00    &  Brick  and  Cement.    C.  H.  ROGERS. 


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Intercollegiate  Bureau  of  Academic  Costume 

COTRELL  &  LEONARD 

472;4-6-8  Broadway,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Makers  of  Caps,  Gowns  and  Hoods  to  the 
American  Colleges  and  Universities 

illustrated  bulletin,  samples,  etc.,  upon  application 


THOMAS  BURKE 

Livery,  Sale  and  Exchange  Stables 

Haven  House  Barns,  Main  Street,  Canton 
First-Class  Turnouts     .-.     Careful  Drivers  Reasonable  Prices 

Goodnough's  Drug  Store 

The  only  placeVin  town  to  get  Hot  Sodas  and 
Lowney's  Chocolates 


Advertisements 


DR.  C.  D.  LAIDLAW 
Canton,  N.  Y. 
Office  at  residence,  corner  Main  and  Miner  Streets 
Office  hours— 8  to  10a.  m.;  1  to  4  p.  m.;  7  to  9  p.  ra. 

DR.  LUCIA  E.  HEATON 

Canton,  N.  Y. 
Office  Hours- 3  to  4  and  6:30  to  7:30  p.  m. 

CEYLON  G.  CHANEY 
Attorney  and  Counselor  at  Law 
Canton,  N.  Y. 

F.  F.  WILLIAMS,  M.  D. 
Canton,  N.  Y. 

Kesidence,  No.  6,  Goodrich  Street  Office,  No.  70J^  Main  Street 

Office  Hours— I  to  3  and  7  to  8  p.  m.   Sundays— 3  to  4  p.  m.,  only. 

Poultry,  Sausage,  Game,  Fish,  Lard, 
Fresh,  Smoked  and  Salt  Meats,  etc. 

F.  M.  GARDNER  ALEX.  VEITCH 

GARDNER  &  VEITCH 

Contractors  and  Builders,  Manufacturers  of  Sash,  Doors  and  Blinds 

CANTON,  N.  Y. 

MRS.  R.  H.  ROULSTON 
Fine  Display  of  Millinery.   The  Very  Latest  and  Best 

Drury  Block  Opp.  Park  College  Girls  Especially  Requested  to  Call 

Dr.  FRED  HOSLEY,  Dr.  L.  V.  SHERMAN,  Jr. 

 DENTISTS  ^ 

Over  the  City  Bakery       South  side  Main  Street        Canton,  New  York 


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XA  A  nfT  A  TV 7  sells  the  laiuoiis  STEIN -BLOCH  WHOLESALE- 
/Y\  A  I  I  ^  A  \a/  'A'A  I LO  U E  USUI  TS  a  N  D  O  V ERCO ATS,  prices  $15 
*  toif;;};').   Also  the  celebrated  YOUNGS  HATS  at  i;3, 

and  a  flue  lino  of  GENTS'  FUUNISHINGS.  Specialty  of  Full  Dress  Suits 
and  the  W.  L.  Dou>?la8  $3.50  Shoe.  A  discount  of  10%,  FOR  CASH  to  all  Pro- 
fessors and  Students  only. 

Canton's  Reliable  Clothier,  Furnisher  and  Shoe  Dealer 
Complete  Lines  in  all  Departments        J  0,760  Square  Feet  of  Floor  Space 

GEORGE  H.  GILMORE 
FURNITURE  AND  UNDERTAKING 

Established  in  J  867  Hodskin  Street,  Canton,  N.  Y. 

WILLIAM  W.  WHEELOCK  GEORGE  B.  SHATTUCK  FREDEKICK  J.  NEWEY 

WHEELOCK  &  SHATTUCK 
Lawyers 

Telephone  Central  1053  i2oi  Unity  Building,  Chicago 

FOSTER  L.  BACKUS 

Counselor  at  Law 
Telephone,  136  Main  16  Court  Street 

Cable  Address,  "Backus"  Borough  of  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 

Law  Office  of 

HARRIS,  CORWIN,  GUNNISON  &  MEYERS 

150  Nassau  St.,  New  York. 

Clinton  S.  Harris.  Frederick  E.  Gunnison. 

John  Howard  Corwin.  John  G.  H.  Meyers. 


Dr.  J.  R.  POWELL,  Dentist 

Office  over  D.  M.  Jordan's,  South  side  Main  Street 


Dr.  Tyler,  Dentist, 


Over  E.  L.  Heaton's  Jewelry 
Store,  Main  Street,  Canton. 
Twenty   Years  Experience. 


Newly  fitted  apartments  in  the  corner  room  over  Remington's  store 
Corner  of  Court  and  Main  Streets,  Canton,  N.  Y. 


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LAUREL  FLOUR 

Edmands'  1775  &  Spurr's 
Revere  Coffees,  Marvelli 
Macaroni  and  Auerbach's 
line  of  Fine  loc.  Candies 
are  exclusively  sold  in 
connection  with  Choicest 
Groceries  by 

A.  M.  ALDRICH 

Cor.  Court  and  flain  Streets 
CANTON,  N.  Y. 

DEALER  IN 


Telephone  Connections.    Orders  left  at  A.  M.  Aldrich's  Grocery. 


UP-TO-DATE 

CIGAR 

STORE 

Cigars  Cigarettes 

Pipes 

Tobaccoes 

Upper  Main  Street 

Dan  O'Neil 

DO  YOU  KNOW 

That  the  best  way  to  secure  a  position  as  Teacher  is  to  register  in  the 

ALBANY  TEACHERS'  AGENCY 

If  you  do  not  know  this,  send  for  our  illustrated  manual  and  see  what  is  said 
of  us  by  teachers  who  have  secured  positions  through  our  aid.  We  have  been 
especially  successful  in  finding'  positions  for  inexperienced  teachers,  and  are  al- 
ways glad  to  enroll  the  nuraes  of  yonng  men  and  women  who  are  just  about  to 
graduate  from  coneg;c.  No  agency  in  the  country  gives  more  faithful  service 
or  8ecur€}S  positions  for  a  larger  proportion  of  its  candidates.  Calls  for  teachers 
are  coming  in  every  day  in  the  year,  and  they  come  from  every  state  in  the 
Union.  Now  is  the  time  to  register.  Send  for  illustrated  manual  and  regis- 
tration blank.  HAKLAN  P.  FKENCli,  Proprietor, 

81  Cliapel  Street,  Albany,  N.  Y. 


One  of  the  finest  and  best  equipped.    Special  attention  and  prices  given 
to  clubs  and  fraternity  houses.    Telephone  in  connection. 


E,  L.  HEATON 


HE'S 
THE  JEWELER 

Everything  in  his  line 
on  hand.  Repairing 
and     Optical  Work. 


The  Theological  School 


FOUNDED  IN  1856 

The  Canton  Theological  School  is  the  first  foundation  estab- 
lished by  the  Universalist  Church  for  the  education  of  ministers.  It  has 
graduated  forty-eight  classes  and  sent  into  the  ministry  over  three  hundred 
and  fifty  clergymen.  Its  present  equipment  is  the  most  complete  in  its 
history.  Besides  its  share  in  the  University  plant,  it  has  a  noble  build- 
ing, Fisher  Hall,  for  its  exclusive  use.  It  has  over  7,000  volumes  in  its 
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The  Faculty  of  The  Thelogical  School  consists  of  the  Rev.  A. 
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Ethics;  the  Rev.  Henry  P.  Forbes,  D.  D.,  Craig  Professor  of  Biblical 
Languages  and  Literature;  the  Rev.  George  E.  Huntley,  Ryder 
Professor  of  Pastoral  Theology;  the  Rev.  John  Murray  Atwood 
A.  M,,  Richardson  Professor  of  Biblical  Theology. 

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